buglen.1
/ˈbjuːɡl/, U.S. /ˈbjuɡ(ə)l/ Any of numerous herbaceous plants of the Old World genus Ajuga (family Lamiaceae), many of which are low plants with an erect stem of blue or purple flowers, often used for ground cover; esp. the common bugle, A. reptans, of Europe. The names buglossa and bugle were occasionally confused by early writers.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > bugle plant or bloom
thunder-cloverc1000
buglea1300
wood-browna1300
prunella1527
ground-pine1551
consound1578
field cypress1578
forget-me-not1578
middle comfrey1578
prunel1578
ajuga1640
ground-ivy1640
bugle-bloom1818
bugleweed1841
a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 554/7 Buglosa, i. bugle, i. wudebrune.
?a1300 in S. G. Hamilton Catal. MSS Worcester Cathedral (1906) 185 Ventimexia, bugle.
a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 43 Wodebroun, bugle.
c1460 My Fayr Lady in J. O. Halliwell Select. Minor Poems J. Lydgate (1840) 199 As bryght as bugyl or ellys bolace.
a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 117 Take þe rote of madir, auence, bugle, cinigle..pimpernol, broun bugle, agrimoyne.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xc. 132 Bugle spreadeth and creepeth along the ground.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xlii. 262 He that hath bugle and sanicle, will scarce vouchsafe the chirurgion a bugle.
1655 Natura Exenterata 113 Take Smallage, Plantane, Orpine, Bugle, Valerian, of each three handfuls, and a good handful of Rugwort; chop all these smal, and grind them afterward in a Mortar.
1777 S. Robson Brit. Flora 6 Stoloniferous, having scions, suckers or barren shoots, as in Creeping Crowfoot and Meadow Bugle.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. iv. 48 Plants..having little or no smell, as Bugle.
1858 A. Irvine Illustr. Handbk. Brit. Plants 436 A[juga] pyramidalis, Linn., Pyramidal Bugle.
1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea 115 The..copse..is blue with the thick spikes of bugle.
1924 W. H. Fitch et al. Illustr. Brit. Flora (ed. 5) 205 Ajuga reptans L. Common bugle; b[lue].
1974 W. Condry Woodlands iii. 34 There may be a varied assortment of such species as bugle.., yellow archangel, sweet woodruff, wood sanicle, [etc.].
2000 Country Illustr. Apr. 106/3 The Ajugas , relations of the wild bugle flower, are favourite ground cover plants, spreading by over-ground runners.
Compounds
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > bugle plant or bloom
thunder-cloverc1000
buglea1300
wood-browna1300
prunella1527
ground-pine1551
consound1578
field cypress1578
forget-me-not1578
middle comfrey1578
prunel1578
ajuga1640
ground-ivy1640
bugle-bloom1818
bugleweed1841
1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 72 Velvet leaves and bugle-blooms.
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buglen.2
/ˈbjuːɡl/, U.S. /ˈbjuɡ(ə)l/ 1. Originally: a simple wind instrument made from the horn of a wild ox and used for signalling in battle or during hunting. In later use esp.: a simple brass instrument resembling a small trumpet, typically having no valves or keys and often used for military signalling. Cf. bugle horn n. 2.For information on the military use of this instrument, see note at bugler n. 1.key bugle: see the first element.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > [noun] > hunting horn
buglea1375
hunting-horn1694
society > armed hostility > military organization > signals > [noun] > signal on instrument > bugle for infantry signalling
buglea1375
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > horn > [noun] > hunting
buglea1375
bugle hornc1400
hunting-horn1694
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > brass instruments > [noun] > bugle
buglea1375
buglet1803
key bugle1818
keyed bugle1818
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1154 (MED) Whanne þe renkes were arayed..bugles & bemes men gun blowe fast.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 1136 With bugle to bent-felde he buskeȝ.
c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) l. 58 (MED) His huntes to chace he commaunde, Here Bugles boldely for to blowe.
a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 142 Terrant blewe hys bugell bold.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 226 Hang my bugle in an inuisible baldricke. View more context for this quotation
1698 J. Crull Antient & Present State Muscovy I. viii. 150 In their Hunting they use Brass Bugles, which make a hideous Noise.
1761 F. Fawkes Descr. Winter in Orig. Poems & Transl. 274 Stoutly Boreas his loud bugle blew.
1824 H. W. Torrens Field Exercise Army (rev. ed.) iv. 222 The use of the bugle may be considerably increased by adopting the use of three simple G's, as distinguishing sounds.
1833 T. B. Macaulay Armada in Friendship's Offering 19 Bugle's note and cannon's roar the death-like silence broke.
1916 Vedanta Monthly July 157 The sound of the huntsman's bugle was heard in the distance.
1987 F. Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes 109 Idgie had some Eagle Scout come out there and play ‘Taps’ on the bugle.
2009 Coastal Views (Queensland) (Nexis) 24 Apr. 1 Salvation Army member Garrett Salter will have the special honour of performing the Last Post on his bugle at services in South Grafton.
a. A wild ox; spec. the extinct aurochs, Bos primigenius. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > subfamily Bovinae (bovine) > [noun] > wild
oxOE
buglea1382
oryxa1382
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bran1688
bush cow1847
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Deut. xiv. 5 Þis is þe beest þat ȝe owyn to ete oxe & sheep & she goot, hert capred bugle [L. bubalum].
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xv. 1151 Þe bugle..is yliche to an oxe and is a fers beste.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 5103 A þousande bugles of Ynde.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 179 Hornes of grete oxen or of bugles.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 178 (MED) Cesar auguste..helde hym appayed of commyn brede and grete fleshis and chese of the bugle.
1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xviii. xv. f. 350/1 Bugle flesh sod or rosted, healeth mans biting.
1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity Estates 636 Cups..made of bugles hornes.
1678 J. P. tr. J. Johnstone Descr. Nature Four-footed Beasts ii. ii. 31/1 (heading) Of the Wild-Ox, or Bugle.
1784 E. Jones Mus. Relicks Welsh Bards 43 The Corn Buelin, or Bugle-Horn..received its general appellation from its being the horn of the Bugle, Buffalo, or wild Ox, an animal formerly common in this island.
b. A bull. British regional. Obsolete.
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1724 A. Ramsay Ever Green II. 267/1 (Gloss.) Bougil, a young Bull, item his Horn.
1776 Entick's New Spelling Dict. (new ed.) 73/1 Bugle, a small piece of glass, plant, bull.
1795 R. Anderson Poets Great Brit. I. 675/2 Gloss. I have been told that in some parts of the north a bull is now called a bugle.
1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. at Bugle A bull, in Hampshire, is called a bugle.
1859 Notes & Queries 19 Nov. 423/1 In Hampshire, some years ago, a bull was always called a bugle, and I believe the term is still in use.
1881 H. Smith & C. R. Smith Isle of Wight Words Bugle, a young bull; the Bugle Inn at Newport.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > cylinder > [noun] > quality of being hollow cylinder > hollow cylinder or tube
pipeOE
channela1387
cannela1400
canal?a1425
trump?1440
tunnel1545
clyster1578
cannon1588
bugle1615
tube1658
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 180 Put your Bugle into the bladder and blow it.
4. North American slang. The nose.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [noun]
noseeOE
naseeOE
nebeOE
billa1000
nesec1175
grunyie?a1513
gnomon1582
nib1585
proboscis1631
handle to (also of, on) one's face1675
snot-gall1685
nozzle1689
bowsprit1690
smeller1699
snitch1699
trunk1699
vessel1813
index1817
conk1819
sneezer1820
scent box1826
snorter1829
snuff-box1829
bugle1847
beak1854
nasal1854
sniffer1858
boko1859
snoot1861
snorer1891
horn1893
spectacles-seat1895
razzo1899
beezer1915
schnozzle1926
schnozzola1929
schnozz1930
snozzle1930
honker1942
hooter1958
1847 H. Melville Omoo v. 19 The mate snored most strangely; and no wonder, with that crooked bugle of his.
1865 ‘M. Twain’ in Daily Amer. Flag 20 Dec. 1/3 Maguire..split him in the bugle.
1901 Truth (Sydney) 14 July 8/3 Mr Dorward's ‘bugle’ had evidently received a business-like bash, which..splintered the nasal bone.
1957 D. Niland Call me when Cross turns Over (1958) 214 You keep your big bugle out of it.
2005 Sunday Times (Nexis) 30 Oct. 64 All that mattered to [her] was the white powder and shoving it up her bugle.
5. North American. The rutting call of a large deer; esp. the loud screams of a male wapiti (North American elk).
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1892 T. Roosevelt in Cent. Mag. Sept. 716/2 We heard the bugle of a bull elk.
1917 Zool. Soc. Bull. May 1486/2 Another bugle was heard and another antlered king came from the woods.
1952 Variety 9 Jan. 20/4 The..film has been set to music..that incorporates the male elk's mating bugle as a motif.
1998 V. Geist Deer of World viii. 189/1 The [wapiti] stag apparently commences roaring like a European red deer but then increases the frequency to end with a bugle.
2007 D. Aadland Best All Seasons vi. 90 [Hunters] study ballistics, sight in their rifles, and practice imitating the bugle of lovelorn wapiti.
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C1. General attributive (in sense 1), as bugle blast, bugle note, bugle sound, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of wind instruments > sound of bugle
bugle blasta1500
bugle call1803
tiralee1847
a1500 (a1400) Ipomedon (Chetham) (1889) l. 1276 (MED) In the forest gan they fare..Wyth many a bugell-blaste.
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. biiii He hard ane bugill blast brym and ane loud blaw As the seymly sone silit to the rest.
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles ii. xxi. 65 A bugle-clang From the dark ocean upward rang.
1891 J. Kirkland Captain of Company K vi. 78 ‘Reveille’ (pronounced revelee) is a wild, romantic bugle sound, thrilling to the young soldier.
1925 Rotarian Dec. 18/1 His voice resonant and dominant as a bugle-note as he cried, ‘There is no god but god’.
1987 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 11 Aug. b1/1 Bugle music came over the loudspeaker.
2006 Gloucester Citizen (Nexis) 17 Aug. 28 The hourly blowing of the half-finished bugle blare commemorates the day in 1241 when one such bugler was shot in the throat by invading Tatar archers.
C2. † bugle-beard n. Obsolete rare a beard resembling that of a wild ox.† bugle-browed adj. Obsolete having horns resembling those of a wild ox.In quot. with specific reference to a cuckold; cf. horned adj. 4.
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1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 138 With his bristled, hoarie, bugle-beard, Comming to kisse her.
1881 T. L. O. Davies Suppl. Eng. Gloss. Bugle-beard, shaggy beard, like a buffalo.
bugle boy n. now chiefly historical a boy who plays a bugle, esp. in a military regiment (see note at bugler n. 1).
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > signaller or musician
waitc1325
trumpeter1497
drum?1535
drum major1589
trumpettier1609
drum-major general1676
bugler1792
fife-major1802
pipe major1816
Bugle Major1844
signaller1845
bugle boy1848
trumpet-major1855
bugleman1859
bunting-tosser1905
buzzer1915
music1915
society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > wind player > [noun] > bugler
bugler1792
Bugle Major1844
bugle boy1848
bugleman1859
1807 Times 24 June Three Bugle Boys on Horseback, with small Blue Flags.
1848 J. Grant Adventures Aide-de-camp III. xv. 196 ‘Sound!’ said I to the bugle-boy.
1915 Indiana Boys' Advocate Oct. 13/2 Charles Pickel is our cornet soloist and bugle boy.
2012 Coventry Evening Tel. (Nexis) 26 Mar. 5 Jim was a bugle boy..and had served in the armed forces.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [adjective] > adulterous > dishonoured by wife's adultery
forked1586
cornuted1612
horn-mada1616
bugle-broweda1632
horneda1632
horn-beaten1652
hornified1693
grafted1699
a1632 T. Middleton & J. Webster Any Thing for Quiet Life (1662) iv. sig. Fv Wife. 'Tis for mine own credit if I forbear, not thine, thou bugle-browd beast thou.
bugle call n. (a) a signal or summons sounded on a bugle (also figurative); (b) North American the rutting call of a large deer; esp. the loud screams of a male wapiti (North American elk).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Alces (elk or moose) > sound made by
bugle call1803
bugling1948
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of wind instruments > sound of bugle
bugle blasta1500
bugle call1803
tiralee1847
1803 W. Scott Let. 10 July (1932) I. 195 I can proceed no further being alarmed by the Bugle Call not indeed to summon to battle but to the less hazardous task of a Mess Dinner.
1889 H. W. Seton-Karr Ten Years' Wild Sports Foreign Lands vi. 137 We..heard that wonderful, weird, awe-inspiring bugle call of the bull.
1911 Mariner′s Mirror 1 224/1 What is the origin of the ‘first’ and ‘last post’ bugle calls used in H.M. ships?
1947 Life 17 Nov. 132/2 It [sc. the Daughters of the American Revolution] was founded in 1890, after a journalistic bugle call was sounded in the Washington Post.
1983 Boston Globe (Electronic ed.) 9 Oct. 1 Schilla and Walsh talk..about the difference between an elk's bugle call and its grunt.
2011 G. Bethlenfalvay In Search of Amer. i. 27 The plaintive chords of a distant bugle call wafting through mild waves of dusking evening air.
2016 Edmonton (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 9 June (Early ed.) b11 You might spot a moose or hear the bugle call of a bull elk.
Bugle Major n. (also with lower-case initials) the chief bugler in a regiment.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > signaller or musician
waitc1325
trumpeter1497
drum?1535
drum major1589
trumpettier1609
drum-major general1676
bugler1792
fife-major1802
pipe major1816
Bugle Major1844
signaller1845
bugle boy1848
trumpet-major1855
bugleman1859
bunting-tosser1905
buzzer1915
music1915
society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > conductor or leader > [noun] > bugle-major
Bugle Major1844
society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > wind player > [noun] > bugler
bugler1792
Bugle Major1844
bugle boy1848
bugleman1859
1804 Scots Mag. Sept. 696/2 The whole of the Sounds of the Bugle Horn... By John Kelly, Bugle Major.
1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 396 The Drum or Bugle-Major.
1948 Illustr. London News 3 Jan. 15 (caption) Instruction of persons sent from regiments to qualify for bugle-majors, trumpet-majors and band-masters.
2015 Ulster Star (Nexis) 20 July Bugle Major Gary Freeland..sounded the last post at the State Entrance to Hillsborough Castle.
bugleman n. now somewhat rare a military bugler; (later also more generally) a man who plays a bugle.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > signaller or musician
waitc1325
trumpeter1497
drum?1535
drum major1589
trumpettier1609
drum-major general1676
bugler1792
fife-major1802
pipe major1816
Bugle Major1844
signaller1845
bugle boy1848
trumpet-major1855
bugleman1859
bunting-tosser1905
buzzer1915
music1915
society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > wind player > [noun] > bugler
bugler1792
Bugle Major1844
bugle boy1848
bugleman1859
1795 Proc. Gen. Court Martial Castle of Edinb. 44 Upon Captain Gray's ordering the bugleman into confinement,..the light company..came down to the guardhouse, demanding the release of the prisoner.
1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing iii, in Fraser's Mag. May 608/1 A bugleman was by his side, who performed the melodies which so delighted Miss Crump.
1859 S. Smiles Self-help 21 From the general down through all grades to the private and bugleman.
1958 D. Read Peterloo iii. viii. 129 Controlling the whole was a principal conductor,..who headed the column with a bugleman to sound his orders.
2006 San Bernardino (Calif.) Sun (Nexis) 13 Dec. Soldiers on a hill provided a rifle salute and a lone bugleman played taps.
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buglen.3
/ˈbjuːɡl/, U.S. /ˈbjuɡ(ə)l/ A tube-shaped bead made of glass or plastic, used to make jewellery or to ornament clothing. Also as a mass noun: †such beads collectively (obsolete). Cf. bugle bead n.Beads of this type are produced in a variety of different finishes and shapes, including round, hexagonal, or twisted.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > bead
beadc1400
bugle1573
bead-stone1677
bugle bead1713
poppit1955
1573 Accts. in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 181 Item for .v. Tuffes of Bugles to sett on the Ianizes hattes bowghte of William Pilkington.
1577 R. Willes & R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Hist. Trauayle W. & E. Indies 461 Cortesius presented the kyng with a chayne of Bugle [L. Vitrei], set with some Diamondes and Rubies.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. 66 A gyrdle..Embost with buegle.
1640 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 21 Nov. 20 163 The sole making & venting of Beades and Beaugles.
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 16 Their necks and armes adorn'd with bracelets of Counterfeit pearles, and blew bugle.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xxii. 159 A kind of waistcoat..all set-off, with bugles and spangles.
1793 Lady's Mag. June 312/1 A white crape petticoat, richly embroidered with bugles.
1818 M. M. Sherwood Stories Church Catech. (ed. 4) xiv. 84 She would load them with presents..gloves, habit-shirts, silver spoons, bugles, brooches.
1884 E. H. D'Avigdor Fair Diana xxxiii. 265 The black grapes and bugles which..decorated her bonnet.
1905 Illustr. London News 24 June 898/1 Lady Coddington had her soft grey satin gown embroidered with bugles, black-and-white paillettes, and diamanté, the combined effect of all which was lovely.
1955 Life 28 Nov. 29/2 (advt.) Excellent assortment of beads, bugles, sequins, spangles, cork balls, earring backs, etc.
2011 J. Dunne tr. M. Rivas Bks. burn Badly 361 Very short, low-cut Charleston dresses embroidered with bugles and beads.
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attributive. With the senses ‘relating to, made of, or ornamented with bugles; reminiscent of or resembling a bugle or bugles’.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [adjective] > ornamented with beads
beaded1587
bugle1611
bugled1730
beady1892
bead-worked1909
1611 L. Barry Ram-Alley iv. sig. G2 Her Bowgle gowne and best wrought smock is on.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. v. 48 Your inkie browes, your blacke silke haire, Your bugle eye-balls, nor your cheeke of creame. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 223 Bugle-bracelet, Necke-lace Amber. View more context for this quotation
1656 P. Heylyn France painted to Life 95 A suit of Turkey Grogram dublet with Taffaty,..belayed with bugle lace.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 245. ⁋2 Adam and Eve in Bugle-Work..upon Canvas, curiously wrought.
1768 J. Ellis in Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 408 The Cellularia Salicornia..or Bugle Coralline.
1864 Le Follet July The silk paletôts.., are made..with a deep flounce of lace, headed by drop buttons or bugle trimming.
1960 Dublin Hist. Rec. 16 10 She..turned her attentions to music and also learned bugle work—this was a form of bead work used for trimming ladies cloaks.
2005 Out Jan. 41 (caption) White stretch poplin shirt with black bugle trim.
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buglev.
/ˈbjuːɡl/, U.S. /ˈbjuɡ(ə)l/ 1.
a. transitive. To play or sound (a bugle or horn). rare.In quot. 1831 with punning allusion to the surname ‘Horn’.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > sound (notes, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > wind instrument > bugle
bugle1593
1593 J. Eliot Ortho-epia Gallica ii. 62/2 Wind your horne, let slip your mastif. Bugle your horne, wind him double.
1831 London Weekly Times 8 May The defendent Horn, if not blown, has at least been well bugled.
1921 Open Road Aug. 28/2 I wants to tell you about a real bugler, the finest bugler dat ever bugled a bugle.
1979 Iowa Rev. 10 5 My mother got in very reluctantly. She didn't like ‘the automobile’ as she always called it. Pa bugled the horn again and we were off.
2012 J. M. Tuccelli Glow 133 I was gon do it fore the whole place began rising, fore the overseer bugled his horn, without no one catching me.
b. transitive. Esp. in military contexts: to convey a signal or command to (a person or group) using a call sounded on a bugle. Also occasionally (and in earliest use) figurative: to call (a person) by shouting in a manner suggestive of a bugle.
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society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > signalling with other sounding instruments > sound signal on instrument [verb (transitive)] > with bugle or trumpet
trumpc1384
beme1508
sound1569
trumpet1609
bugle1835
clarion1840
1835 Knickerbocker Oct. 355 She raised her voice in screaming protestation, and soon bugled a dozen or two of neighbors to her assistance.
1872 W. H. Dixon Switzers xxxv. 362 The rank and file..who are bugled from their beds.
1960 P. Anderson High Crusade xiii. 105 Sir Roger bugled his men to follow him, and they scattered out on to the plain.
1991 W. Marvel Burnside iii. 136 Willcox bugled his men to their feet and stood them in columns of march.
c. transitive. To play or sound (a note, tune, etc.) on a bugle, or as if on a bugle. Also figurative: to utter or proclaim loudly.
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society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > announce or proclaim [verb (transitive)] > loudly
trumpc1384
blazec1450
depredicate1550
abuccinate1569
blazon1577
ebuccinate1588
to proclaim (also cry, declare, shout) (something) on (also from, upon) the house-top(s)?1591
exclaima1593
trumpet1609
trumpet-tonguea1616
chanticleer1810
bugle1837
horn1874
1837 G. V. Cox Jeannette Isabelle III. xvii. 222 I tore up my Virgil and Livy, To light my cigars with the strips; And bugled the tune of tantivy All day, till it blister'd my lips.
1861 W. M. Thackeray Roundabout Papers x, in Cornhill Mag. Feb. 253 The gas in the boxes shuddering out of sight, and the wind-instruments bugling the most horrible wails.
1876 G. M. Hopkins Wreck of Deutschland xi, in Poems (1967) 55 And storms bugle his fame.
1911 W. Owen Let. 7 May (1967) 72 I almost bugled forth the fact that she was addressing a B.Sc.
1993 D. S. Olson Confessions Aubrey Beardsley (1994) xiii. 283 ‘Vitalism,’ said Harland. ‘Individualism!’ bugled Miss Syrett. ‘Diabolism,’ I enjoined.
2015 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 26 Apr. 106 No one who was there will ever forget the sight and sound of a Grenadier Guardsman bugling The Last Post from the top of the arch as dawn broke.
2.
a. intransitive. To play or sound a bugle. Also figurative: to make a sound suggestive of that of a bugle.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (intransitive)] > sound bugle
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1828 [implied in: Atlas (N.Y.) 1 Nov. 52/4 The horribly deafening bugling of your stage and mail-coach guards. (at bugling n.)].
1862 All Year Round Extra Christmas No., 4 Dec. 7/2 Practising soldiers trumpeted and bugled.
1884 J. Colborne With Hicks Pasha in Soudan 118 My friends..who trumpet, bugle, and ‘tam-tam’ all day long.
1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors I. iv. 59 He blinked, bugled in his throat,..and smiled.
1951 J. Jones From Here to Eternity i. 8 But if you're a thirty year man, and you love to bugle so, why are you quitting?
1974 D. Sears Lark in Clear Air viii. 99 George was still bugling though his hairy nose.
2003 J. White Fuel 291 When the boy tried to bugle, nothing came out.
b. intransitive. Chiefly North American. Of a large deer, esp. a male wapiti (North American elk): to make a loud call during the breeding season.
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1966 M. E. Murie & O. Murie Wapiti Wilderness iii. 35 Among the aspens an elk is bugling.
1974 Field & Stream Nov. 102/2 Every time he'd stop to bugle I'd answer and he'd come closer, shaking his head, pawing the ground.
1994 Inside Fort Collins 15 Dec. 11/1 Leaves changing color, elk bugling in the mountains, and birds flying south are all signs that cold weather is on the way.
2001 Bowhunter Feb. 64/2 A bull [elk] bugles..trailing off with a series of grunts from the bottom of a well.
2010 Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois) (Nexis) 10 Oct. f1 We spent a night listening to wolves howling punctuated by a moose cow bugling.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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