Difference between revisions of "Pulse"

<p> PULSE, n. puls. L. pulsus, from pello, to drive. </p> 1. In animals, the beating or throbbing of the heart and arteries more particularly, the sudden dilatation of an artery, caused by the projectile force of the blood, which is perceptible to the touch. Hence we say, to feel the pulse. The pulse is frequent or rare, quick or slow, equal or unequal, regular or intermitting, hard or soft, strong or weak, &c. The pulses of an adult in health, are little more than one pulse to a second in certain fevers, the number is increased to 90,100, or even to 140 in a minute. 2. The stroke with which a medium is affected by the motion of light, sound, &c. oscillation vibration. <p> Sir [[Isaac]] Newton demonstrates that the velocities of the pulses of an elastic fluid medium are in a ratio compounded of half the ratio of the elastic force directly, and half the ratio of the density inversely. </p> <p> To feel one's pulse, metaphorically, to sound one's opinion to try or to know one's mind. </p> <p> PULSE, To beat, as the arteries. Little used. </p> <p> PULSE, L. pulso. To drive, as the pulse. Little used. </p> <p> PULSE, n. L. pulsus, beaten out, as seeds Heb. a bean, to separate. Leguminous plants or their seeds the plants whose pericarp is a legume or pod, as beans, peas, &c. </p>

<p> (1): (v. i.) To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb. </p> <p> (2): (n.) Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc. </p> <p> (3): (n.) The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries. </p> <p> (4): (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. </p> <p> (5): (v. t.) To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate. </p>

<p> (זֵרַֹעים, zeroim, and זֵרְעֹנַים, zeronim; Sept. ὄσπρια; Theod. σπέρματα; Vulg. legumince) occurs only in the A.V. in Daniel 1:12; Daniel 1:16, as the translation of the above plural nouns, the literal meaning of which is "seeds" of anly kind. The food on which "the four children" thrived for ten days is perhaps not to be restricted to what we now understand by "pulse," i.e. the grains of leguminous vegetables: the term probably includes edible seeds in general. Gesenius translates the words "vegetables, herbs, such as are eaten in a half-fast, as opposed to flesh and more delicate food." Probably the term denotes uncooked grains of any kind, whether barley, wheat, millet, vetches, etc. </p> <p> Our translators have also inserted in italics the word "pulse" as one of the "parched" sorts of provision which [[Barzillai]] brought to king David (2 Samuel 17:28). In this they are probably right. Leguminous seeds roasted are still used in the East; and in his commentary on Matthew 21:12 [[Jerome]] mentions roasted chick-pease, along with raisins and apples, as the small-wares in which the huckster fruiterers used to deal: "Frixum cicer, uveque passae, et poma diversi generis." Allusions in [[Plautus]] and Horace show that parched pease were a familiar article of diet among the poorer Romans. </p>

<p> Pulse [BEANS] </p>