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of another's body willfully or in anger. This constitutes battery. By the Cornelian law, pulsation as well as verberation is prohibited. Blackstone.

The act of driving away or repelling; a keeping at a distance. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Lack or defect of pulsation.

To move with pulsation or throbbing. A thousand hearts beat happily. Byron.

Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.

ine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations. Knight.

, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected. Mayne.

eighboring bones of a fetal or young skull; -- so called because it exhibits a rhythmical pulsation.

A stroke or blow, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.

The mutual influence, under certain conditions, of two streams of light, or series of pulsations of sound, or, generally, two waves or vibrations of any kind, producing certain characteristic phenomena, as colored fringes, dark bands, or darkness, in the case of light, silence or increased intensity in sounds; neutrali…

A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease.

peated, as of a medium in the transmission of light, sound, etc.; oscillation; vibration; pulsation; impulse; beat; movement. The measured pulse of racing oars. Tennyson. When the ear receives any simple sound, it is struck by a single pulse of the air, which makes the eardrum and the other membranous parts vibrate acc…

Having no pulsation; lifeless.

Exciting the pulse; causing pulsation.

A device for automatically counting the revolutions or pulsations of an engine or other machine; -- called also simply counter.

A telephone involving heat effects, as changes in temperature (hence in length) due to pulsations of the line current in a fine wire connected with the receiver diaphragm.

A beat, or strong pulsation, as of the heart and arteries; a violent beating; a papitation: The IMPATIENT throbs and longings of a soul That pants and reaches after distant good. Addison.

that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible. He fell down in a trance. Chaucer.

The pulsation caused by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison; -- called also beat.

Not uniform; not equable; irregular; uneven; as, unequal pulsations; an unequal poem.