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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 5

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A sort of wild ox; a buffalo. E. Phillips.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 5

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A horn used by hunters.

2. A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 5

Part of speech: noun (n.)

An elingated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 5

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World. Yellow bugle, the Ajuga chamæpitys.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 5 of 5

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Jet black. "Bugle eyeballs." Shak.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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