| pulse | |
| 1. n. (physiology) A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart. | |
| 2. n. A beat or throb. | |
| 3. n. (music) The beat or tactus of a piece of music. | |
| 4. n. An autosoliton | |
| 5. v. To beat, to throb, to flash. | |
| In the dead of night, all was still but the pulsing light. | |
| 6. v. To flow, particularly of blood. | |
| Hot blood pulses through my veins. | |
| 7. v. To emit in discrete quantities. | |
| 8. n. Any annual legume yielding from 1 to 12 grains or seeds of variable size, shape and colour within a pod, and used as food for humans or animals. | |
