Bot. 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.
