Pulse

Noun

 * 1) Any annual legume yielding from 1 to 12 grains or seeds of variable size, shape and colour within a pod, and used as food for humans or animals.
 * 2)  A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart.
 * 3) A beat or throb.
 * 4)  The beat or tactus of a piece of music.

Verb

 * 1) to beat, to throb, to flash.
 * In the dead of night, all was still but the pulsing light.
 * 1) to flow, particularly of blood.
 * Hot blood pulses through my veins.
 * 1) to emit in discrete quantities

Thesaurus
algae, alternate, arrhythmia, arsis, autophyte, bar beat, be here again, bean, beat, beating, bicker, bout, bracken, brown algae, circle, circuit, climber, come again, come and go, come around, come round, come round again, come up again, conferva, confervoid, course, creeper, cycle, dance, diastole, diatom, downbeat, drum, drumming, echo pulse, fern, flap, flick, flicker, flip, flit, flitter, flop, flutter, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, go pitapat, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, gutter, hammering, heartbeat, heartthrob, herb, heterophyte, intermit, ivy, kelp, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mold, moss, mushroom, offbeat, oscillate, palpitate, palpitating, palpitation, pant, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, pitapat, pitter-patter, planktonic algae, plant families, pounding, puffball, pulsate, pulsating, pulsation, pulsing, rat-a-tat, rataplan, reappear, recur, red algae, reoccur, repeat, resonate, return, reverberating, reverberation, revolution, revolve, rhythm, rockweed, roll around, rotate, rotation, round, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, series, slat, smut, spell, splutter, sputter, staccato, succulent, systole, tempo, thesis, throb, throbbing, thrumming, thumping, tick, ticktock, toadstool, trigger pulse, turn, undulate, upbeat, vetch, vibrate, vibrating, vibration, vine, wave, waver, wheel, wheel around, wort, wrack

Etymology
pulsus:, from pellere:.

For spelling, the -e (on -lse) is so the end is pronounced /ls/, rather than /lz/ as in pulls:, and does not change the vowel (‘u’). Compare else:, false:, convulse:.

Noun

 * Arabic: نبضة
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 脈搏, 脉搏,  ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:, σφυγμός


 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: æðasláttur,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 脈搏
 * Korean: 맥박 (脈搏)
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Volapük: peb


 * Catalan: pulsació
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Icelandic:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: импульс


 * German:
 * Greek: παλμός
 * Icelandic: taktslag,


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ритм

Anagrams

 * Lepus
 * pules