pulse

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.
4. An autosoliton

1. To beat, to throb, to flash.

   In the dead of night, all was still but the pulsing light.

2. To flow, particularly of blood.

   Hot blood pulses through my veins.

3. To emit in discrete quantities.
4. To operate a blender in short bursts, to break down ingredients without liquidizing them.

noun

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.