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A secondary notch in the pulse curve, obtained in a sphygmographic tracing.

A variety of the lever escapement with a wide impulse pin.

A tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeon pea and Congo pea.

A driving or striking against; an appulse.

Being without rhythm or regularity, as the pulse.

ulus tremula, so called from the trembling of its leaves, which move with the slightest impulse of the air.

bsolute or controlling authority; supremacy. The divine will moves, not by the external impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy. South.

A calling away; a diversion. [Obs. or Archaic] Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin. South.

A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called simply a balance.

Lower; inferior; applied to impulses or springs of action. [R.] "Basilar instincts." H. W. Beecher.

A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.

d of the foremast. -- Before the wind (Naut.), in the direction of the wind and by its impulse; having the wind aft.

Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery.

kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight.

A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give; as, to give a ball a cant.

Designating, pertaining to, or characterized by, that form of pulse tracing, or sphygmogram, in which the descending portion of the curve is marked by secondary elevations due to two or more expansions of the artery in the same beat. -- Ca*tac"rotism (#), n.

those nerve fibers which go from the brain to the spinal cord, and so transfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal impressions) outwards.

Its nutritious seed, used in cookery, and especially, when roasted (parched pulse), as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts.

To strike or drive back or in an opposite direction; to stop by a blow or impulse in front. Dryden.

ing. -- Cross buttock, a particular throw in wrestling; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse. Smollet. -- Cross country, across the country; not by the road. "The cross- country ride." Cowper. -- Cross fertilization, the fertilization of the female products of one physiological individual by the male products of a…