BUGLE

treble bra or copper wind of instrument with cup-shaped mouth with piece, used in military service. During acres the XVIII. cent. is superseded the drum in Eng. infantry regiments asa northern signal instrument, and eventually ousted the cavalry trumpet. There is also a of the keyed instrument known as the ‘Royal in its Kent Bugle,’ which, however, has now given place to the cornet. The b. is a year. very ancient musical instrument, and upon originally was made of a bull’s horn— 506,775. hence the term ‘bugle-horn,’