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1. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo. 2. A horn used by hunters. 3. 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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle. 4. An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black. 5. Jet black. 6. A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World. 7. A bugle. 8. A drinking vessel made of horn.
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