Pulse

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.

II. Pulse ·noun Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, ·etc.

III. Pulse ·noun The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.

IV. Pulse ·vi To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to Pulsate; to Throb.

V. Pulse ·noun 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.