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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Bugill, n. Also: bugil, -ul, pl. buglis, buggill; bowgill, bowgle, bougle, bogill; bewgill. [ME. bugil (-elle, -ulle, etc., also bewgalle, -ulle), bugle, OF. bugle.]

1. A wild ox or buffalo. Also attrib. with hide. a1400 Leg. S. iv. 344.
To tha fel bugilis eke, Thai schawit the corse [= cross] , & thai vorth mek a1500 Henr. Fab. 893.
The bull, the beir, the bugill, and the bair c1500-c1512 Dunb. xlviii. 110.
Lat no bowgle, with his busteous hornis, The meik pluch ox oppres 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. xlvii.
Scheip … with hornis lang and thikkar than ony horne of ane bewgill 1533 Boece viii. viii. 265 b.
Hengist … schure ane grete bugill hyde in ane lang thwayng like ane threde

b. Bugill horn = sense 2. (In ME. c 1300.) 1531 Bell. Boece II. 152.
In thair other hand, ilk ane of thame had ane bugil horn

2. A hunting horn; a bugle. Also fig. a1500 Henr. Fab. 831.
Thair he harde ane buisteous bugill blaw c1500 Rowll Cursing 196 (B).
[Fiends] With bowgillis & hornis maid of bras c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 230.
The Lord of wyndis … his bugill blew Id. xxi. 63.
Quhen the angell blawis his bugill sture 1513 Doug. vii. Prol. 67.
So bustuusly Boreas his bugill blew 1535 Stewart 12324.
The buglis blast reboundit fra the bruke Ib. 54356.
With that ane Scot ane mekle buggill blew a1568 Scott ii. 191.
Be than the bowgill gan to blaw c1568 Lauder Minor P. ii. 26.
Hipocrasie … and pryde Now blawis thair bugillis strang and sture 1573 Sat. P. xli. 93.
That bogill thair that ȝe hard blaw a1578 Pitsc. I. 412/5.
Oppressioun did so loud his bewgill blaw 1626 Garden Worthies 109.
Als long as Fame hes in her bougle breath

b. Attrib. with blast, blawar. a1500 Gol. & Gaw. 523.
He hard ane bugill blast brym 1533 Bell. Livy I. 95/6.
The … trumpettis, bugil-blawaris, and menstralis