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.]

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  1.  † a. The buffalo (= BUFFALO 1 a) and other kinds of wild oxen. Obs. b. A young bull. dial.

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c. 1300.  K. Alis., 5112. A thousand bugles of Ynde.

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVIII. xv. (1495), 774. The Bugle … is lyke to an oxe and is a fyers beest.

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c. 1400.  Maundev., xxvi. 269. Hornes of grete Oxen or of Bugles.

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1536.  Bellenden, Cron. Scot. (1821), I. 47. Hornis … thikkar than ony horne of ane bewgill.

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1615.  E. Grimstone, Hist. World, 636. Cups … made of bugles hornes.

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1677.  W. Charlton, Exerc. de Diff. et Nom. Animal. (ed. 2), 8. Bonasus, the Bugle.

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1881.  Isle of Wight Gloss. (E.D.S.), Bugle, a young bull; the Bugle Inn at Newport.

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  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 a. A hunting-horn, originally made of the horn of a ‘bugle’ or wild ox.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.

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c. 1340.  Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 1136. With bugle to bent felde he buskez.

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c. 1435.  Torr. Portugal, 142. Terrant blewe hys bugelle bold.

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1599.  Shaks., Much Ado, I. i. 243. Hang my bugle in an inuisible baldricke.

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a. 1600.  A. Scott, Adamson & Sym, xx. in The Ever-Green (1761), II. 185. Be than the Bougil gan to blaw.

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1623.  Cockeram, Bugle, a little blacke horne.

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1754.  F. Fawkes, Desc. Wint., 69 (R.).

        So stoutly Boreas his loud bugle blew,
Down to the dales the trembling deer withdrew.

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1832.  Macaulay, Armada, 49. Bugle’s note and cannon’s roar The deathlike silence broke.

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1877.  Field Exercise Infantry, 403. One G sounded on the Bugle will denote the right of the line.

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  † 3.  ? A tube. Obs.

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1615.  Crooke, Body of Man, 180. Put your Bugle into the bladder and blow it.

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  4.  Comb., as bugle-blast, -clang; † bugle-browed a., having horns like a wild ox; ‘horned’ (fig.); bugle-major, the chief bugler in a regiment; bugle-boy, -man = BUGLER.

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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.

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1815.  Scott, Ld. of Isles, II. xxi. A bugle-clang From the dark ocean upward rang.

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1844.  Regul. & Ord. Army, 396. The Drum or Bugle-Major.

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1848.  J. Grant, Advent. of Aide, lix. ‘Sound!’ said I to the bugle-boy.

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1859.  Smiles, Self-Help, 21. From the general down through all grades to the private and bugleman.

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1864.  Bryant, Return of Birds, vi. There is heard the bugle-blast.

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