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Bugle :: Bugle (n.) 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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle..

Cornist :: Cornist (n.) A performer on the cornet or horn.

Cornets-a-piston :: Cornets-a-piston (pl. ) of Cornet-a-pisto.

Double-tonguing :: Double-tonguing (n.) A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing..

Hooded :: Hooded (a.) Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip..

Sennet :: Sennet (n.) A signal call on a trumpet or cornet for entrance or exit on the stage.

Cornet :: Cornet (n.) A brass instrument, with cupped mouthpiece, and furnished with valves or pistons, now used in bands, and, in place of the trumpet, in orchestras. See Cornet-a-piston..

Cornet :: Cornet (n.) A headdres.

Cornet-a-piston :: Cornet-a-piston (n.) A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet..

Cornet :: Cornet (n.) A troop of cavalry; -- so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.

Cornet :: Cornet (n.) A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares..

Krumhorn :: Krumhorn (n.) A reed instrument of music of the cornet kind, now obsolete (see Cornet, 1, a.)..

Cornet :: Cornet (n.) A certain organ stop or register.

Cornet :: Cornet (n.) The standard of such a troop.

Cornopean :: Cornopean (n.) An obsolete name for the cornet-a-piston.

Cornet :: Cornet (n.) The lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office was abolished in 1871..

Cornet :: Cornet (n.) A part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century..

Cornet :: Cornet (n.) A square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain professions.

Cornet :: Cornet (n.) See Coronet, 2..

Cornet :: Cornet (n.) An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family..

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