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of steam, air, water, or other fluid, in rapid motion, lifts or otherwise moves, by its impulse, a larger quantity of the fluid with which it mingles.

to the spinal cord, because it is capable of conveying doth voluntary and reflex motor impulses, without itself being affected by motor impulses applied to it directly.

Having more than usual power or capacity; having broad sympathies and generous impulses; comprehensive; -- said of the mind and heart.

The fruit of leguminous plants, as peas, beans, lupines; pulse.

Pertaining to pulse; consisting of pulse.

One free from restraint; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee. Like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. Shak.

That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given. Saunier. Dead lift. See under Dead. Swift. -- Lift bridge, a kind of drawbridge, the movable part of which is lifted, instead of being drawn aside. -- Lift gate, a gate that is opened by lifting. -- Lift hammer. See Tilt hammer. -- Lift l…

Deficient in vital energy; feeble; weak; as, a low pulse; made low by sickness.

The moments or quantities of motion in bodies. Berkley. Touch, with lightest moment of impulse, His free will. Milton.

Of, pertaining to, or showing, monocrotism; as, a monocrotic pulse; a pulse of the monocrotic type.

That condition of the pulse in which the pulse curve or sphygmogram shows but a single crest, the dicrotic elevation entirely disappearing.

Tending to humble or abase; humiliating; as, a mortifying repulse.

Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity. Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God. South.

Green gram, a kind of pulse (Phaseolus Mungo), grown for food in British India. Balfour (Cyc. of India).

Natural gifts, impulses, etc. [Obs.] Fuller.

sh and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body.

To yield to the impulse, power, or operation of; as, a ship obeys her helm.

A vehement desire; esp. (Physiol.), the periodical sexual impulse of animals; heat; rut.

ed with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel. Brande & C.

n essential element. All the parts were formed . . . into one harmonious body. Locke. The pulse, the glow of every part. Keble.