(n.) Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.
(n.) The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels,
especially of the arteries.
(n.) 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.
(v. i.) To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to
pulsate; to throb.
(v. t.) To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.