Pulse

puls, n. a beating or throbbing: a measured beat or throb: a vibration: the beating of the heart and the arteries: ( fig .) feeling, sentiment.— v.i. to beat, as the heart: to throb.— adj. Pulse′le , having no pulsation: without life.— ns. Pulse′le ne ; Pulse′-rate , the number of beats of a pulse per minute; Pulse′-wave , the expansion of the artery, moving from point to point, like a wave, as each beat of the heart sends the blood to the extremities.— adj. Pulsif′ic , exciting the pulse.— ns. Pulsim′eter , an instrument for measuring the strength or quickne of the pulse; Pulsom′eter , a pulsimeter: a kind of steam-condensing pump.— Feel one's pulse , to find out by the sense of touch the force of the blood in the arteries: to find out what one is thinking on some point; Public pulse , the movement of public opinion on any question; Quick pulse , a pulse in which the rise of tension is very rapid. [Fr. pouls —L. puls us — pellĕre , pulsum .]