▪ I. bugle, n.1
(ˈbjuːg(ə)l)
Forms: 3– bugle, 4 bewgalle, -gulle, 5 bugelle, 4–6 bugull(e, 4–7 bugil, 5–6 Sc. bowgle, 6 Sc. bougil, bewgill, 7 bugill, (8 ? beugle).
[a. OF. bugle:—L. būculus, dim. of bo-s bov-is an ox.]
1. † a. The buffalo (= buffalo n. 1 a) and other kinds of wild oxen. Obs. b. A young bull. dial.
| c 1300 K. Alis. 5112 A thousand bugles of Ynde. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xv. (1495) 774 The Bugle..is lyke to an oxe and is a fyers beest. c 1400 Mandeville xxvi. 269 Hornes of grete Oxen or of Bugles. 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 47 Hornis..thikkar than ony horne of ane bewgill. 1615 E. Grimstone Hist. World 636 Cups..made of bugles hornes. 1677 W. Charleton Exerc. de Diff. et Nom. Animal. (ed. 2) 8 Bonasus, the Bugle. 1881 Isle of Wight Gloss. (E.D.S.), Bugle, a young bull; the Bugle Inn at Newport. |
2. Music. Short for bugle-horn. a. A hunting-horn, originally made of the horn of a ‘bugle’ or wild ox. b. A military instrument of brass or copper, resembling the trumpet, but smaller; used as the signal-horn for the infantry.
| c 1340 Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1136 With bugle to bent felde he buskez. c 1435 Torr. Portugal 142 Terrant blewe hys bugelle bold. 1599 Shakes. Much Ado i. i. 243 Hang my bugle in an inuisible baldricke. a 1600 A. Scott Adamson & Sym xx. in The Ever-Green (1761) II. 185 Be than the Bougil gan to blaw. 1623 Cockeram, Bugle, a little blacke horne. a 1777 F. Fawkes Virg. æneid vii. (R.) Stoutly Boreas his loud bugle blew. 1832 Macaulay Armada 49 Bugle's note and cannon's roar The deathlike silence broke. 1877 Field Exercise Infantry 403 One G sounded on the Bugle will denote the right of the line. |
† 3. ? A tube. Obs.
| 1615 Crooke Body of Man 180 Put your Bugle into the bladder and blow it. |
4. Comb., as bugle-blast, bugle-clang; † bugle-browed a., having horns like a wild ox; ‘horned’ (fig.); bugle-major, the chief bugler in a regiment; bugle-boy, -man = bugler.
| a 1627 Middleton Anyth. for Q. Life (N.) Wife. 'Tis for mine own credit if I forbear, not thine, thou bugle-brow'd beast thou. 1815 Scott Ld. of Isles ii. xxi, A bugle-clang From the dark ocean upward rang. 1844 Regul. & Ord. Army 396 The Drum or Bugle-Major. 1848 J. Grant Advent. of Aide lix, ‘Sound!’ said I to the bugle-boy. 1859 Smiles Self-Help 21 From the general down through all grades to the private and bugleman. 1864 Bryant Return of Birds vi, There is heard the bugle-blast. |
▪ II. bugle, n.2 Bot.
(ˈbjuːg(ə)l)
Also 5 bugyl, -ille.
[a. F. bugle = It. bugola, Sp. bugula:—late L. bugula. The L. bugillo, used by Marcellus Empiricus c 400, seems to denote the same plant.]
1. The English name of the plants belonging to the genus Ajuga, esp. the common species A. reptans. (The names buglossa and bugle were occasionally confounded by early writers.)
| c 1265 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 554 Buglosa, bugle. a 1387 Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 43 Wodebroun, bugle. c 1430 Lydg. Min. Poems (1840) 199 As bryght as bugyl or ellys bolace. 1483 Cath. Angl. 46 Bugille, buglossa, lingua bouis, herba est. 1548 Turner Names of Herbes 83 Consolida media is called in english Bugle. 1578 Lyte Dodoens i. xc. 132 Bugle spreadeth and creepeth along the ground. 1616 Surfl. & Markh. Country Farm 262 He that hath bugle and sanicle, will scarce vouchsafe the surgeon a bugle. 1794 Martyn Rousseau's Bot. iv. 45 Plants..having little or no smell, as bugle. 1865 Gosse Land & Sea 115 The..copse..is blue with the thick spikes of bugle. |
2. Comb., as bugle-bloom.
| 1818 Keats Endym. ii. 314 Velvet leaves and bugle-blooms. |
▪ III. bugle, n.3
(ˈbjuːg(ə)l)
Also 6 buegle, 6–7 beau-, 7 beu-, bewgle.
[Etymology unknown. Of the med.L. bugulus, sometimes quoted as the etymon, a single instance, as the name of a ‘pad’, or framework for the hair, used by Italian ladies, occurs in a chapter De moribus civium Placentiæ 1388, in Muratori Script. Ital. XVI. 580; no similar word is known in Ital. or Fr. Bugle has a certain resemblance in form to Du. beugel a ring (:—MDu. bȫghil, bōghel, Franck); but no connexion of meaning appears.]
1. A tube-shaped glass bead, usually black, used to ornament wearing apparel. (Formerly also collective, or as the name of material.)
| 1579 Spenser Sheph. Cal. Feb. 66 A gyrdle..Embost with buegle. 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. (1877) 61 note, Thei vse to garde their clokes rounde about the skirtes with..Bugles. 1598 Florio, Margaritine, bugles or seede pearles. 1640 Jrnl. Ho. Commons II. 33 The sole Making and Venting of Beads and Beaugles. 1657 R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 16 Some small beads, of white Amber, or blew bugle. 1753 Richardson Grandison (1781) I. xxii. 159 Set off with bugles and spangles. c 1813 Mrs. Sherwood Stories Ch. Catech. xiv. 116 She would load them with presents..gloves, habit-shirts, silver spoons, bugles, brooches. 1884 ‘Wanderer’ Fair Diana xxxiii. 265 The black grapes and bugles which..decorated her bonnet. |
2. attrib. Made of, adorned with, or resembling, bugles.
| 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas i. iv. (1641) 37/1 With his bristled, hoary, beaugle-beard, Comming to kisse her. 1600 Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. v. 47 Your inkie browes, your blacke silke haire, Your bugle eye-balls, nor your cheeke of creame. 1611 ― Wint. T. iv. iv. 224 Bugle-bracelet, Necke-lace Amber. 1611 L. Barrey Ram Alley iv. i, Her bugle-gown, and best-wrought smock. 1710 Steele Tatler No. 245 ¶2 Adam and Eve in Bugle-Work..upon Canvas, curiously wrought. 1767 Ellis in Phil. Trans. LVII. 408 The Cellularia Salicornia..or Bugle Coralline. |
▪ IV. bugle
obs. form of bogle, hobgoblin, and beagle, hound.
| 1555 Eden Decades W. Ind. (Arb.) 206 He goeth..with a lyttle hounde or bewgle. 1696 Aubrey Misc. 192 (D.) They assigned it [second sight] to Bugles or Ghosts. |
▪ V. ˈbugle, v.
[f. bugle n.1 2.]
a. intr. To sound a bugle; to make a sound like a bugle. b. trans. To give forth (a sound), as a bugle; to make known with or as with a bugle; also (nonce-use) to summon by bugle.
| 1862 Thackeray Round. Papers (1879) 89 The wind-instruments bugling the most horrible wails. 1872 Dixon Switzers xxxv. 362 The rank and file..who are bugled from their beds. 1876 G. M. Hopkins Wr. Deutschland (1918) xi, And storms bugle his fame. 1884 J. Colborne Hicks Pasha 118 My friends..who trumpet, bugle, and ‘tam-tam’ all day long. 1890 Meredith One of our Conq. (1891) I. iv. 58 He blinked, bugled in his throat,..and smiled. 1911 W. Owen Let. 7 May (1967) 72, I almost bugled forth the fact that she was addressing a B.Sc. |
So ˈbugling vbl. n.
| 1847 Infantry Man. (1854) 93 Too much bugling..is to be avoided. 1895 Chambers's Jrnl. XII. 648/2 The eternal bugling on the Canea walls still continued. 1948 A. L. Rand Mammals Eastern Rockies 207 The bugling or whistling of the bull elk in the early autumn is the signal..that the rut is starting. |