PULSES

noun

1. A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart.
2. A beat or throb.
3. The beat or tactus of a piece of music.

verb

1. To beat, to throb, to flash.
2. To flow, particularly of blood.
3. To emit in discrete quantities.

noun

1. Any annual legume yielding from 1 to 12 grains or seeds within a pod, and used as food for humans or animals, especially in the mature, dry condition.