n. & v.
n. (also bugle-horn) a brass instrument like a small trumpet, used esp. by huntsmen and for military signals.
v. 1 intr. sound a bugle. 2 tr. sound (a note, a call, etc.) on a bugle. bugler n. buglet n.
[ ME, orig. = 'buffalo', f. OF f. L buculus dimin. of bos ox ]