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Pulse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. puls. [Latin pulsus, from pello, to drive.]

2. In animals, the beating or throbbing of the heart and arteries; more particularly, the sudden dilatation of an artery, caused by the projectile force of the blood, which is perceptible to the touch. Hence we say, to feel the pulse The pulse is frequent or rare, quick or slow, equal or unequal, regular or intermitting, hard or soft, strong or weak, etc. The pulses of an adult in health, are little more than one pulse to a second; in certain fevers, the number is increased to 90, 100, or even to 140 in a minute.

3. The stroke with which a medium is affected by the motion of light, sound, etc.; oscillation; vibration.

4. Sir Isaac Newton demonstrates that the velocities of the pulses of an elastic fluid medium are in a ratio compounded of half the ratio of the elastic force directly, and half the ratio of the density inversely.

5. To feel one's pulse metaphorically, to sound one's opinion; to try or to know one's mind.

6. Leguminous plants or their seeds; the plants whose pericarp is a legume or pod, as beans, peas, etc.

Pulse [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To beat, as the arteries. [Little used.]

Pulse [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To drive, as the pulse [Little used.]

Pulse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.

2. The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.

3. Any measured or regular beat; any short, quick motion, regularly repeated, as of a medium in the transmission of light, sound, etc.; oscillation; vibration; pulsation; impulse; beat; movement.

Pulse [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb.

Pulse [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.

Pulse Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

קלי, Lev. xxiii, 14; 1 Sam. xvii, 17; 2 Sam. xvii, 28; a term applied to those grains or seeds which grow in pods, as beans, peas, vetches, &c, from פול, _a bean_. The Vulgate renders this _kali_ in 2 Sam. xvii, 28, _frixum cicer_, “parched peas.” In Daniel i, 12, 16, the word זרעים, rendered _pulse_, may signify seeds in general.

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Pulseless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having no pulsation; lifeless.

Pulselessness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state of being pulseless.