pulsometer

[Lat. puls us =pulse, and Eng. meter.] A form of pump for raising water, by the condensation of steam, in a ve el situated at such elevation above the water-supply that the at mos and operate the valves. "The wild pulsation that I felt before the strife." Tennyson: Locksley Hall. *2. Law : An a ault or beating without causing pain. "Distinguishing verberation, which was accompanied with pain, from pulsation , which was attended with none." -Black stone: Comment., bk. iii., ch. 8. pul-sa-tive, adj. [Fr. pulsatif; Sp. & Ital. pulsativo.] Beating, throbbing.