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eir seeds, as beans, pease, etc. If all the world Should, in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse. Milton.

Having no pulsation; lifeless.

The state of being pulseless.

A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against. In all consonants there is an appulse of the organs. Holder.

To drive away. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To drive out; to expel. [Obs.] If charity be thus excluded and expulsed. Milton.

An expeller. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

tion suddenly, or immediately. All spontaneous animal motion is performed by mechanical impulse. S. Clarke.

To repel; to drive off or away. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy. Complete to have discovered and repulsed Whatever wiles of foe or seeming friend. Milton.

Not capable of being repulsed.

One who repulses, or drives back.

A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord. That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap. Lev. xxv. 5. Of his own accord he went unto you. 2 Cor. vii. 17.

The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe. Grove. Chose in action. (Law) See Chose. -- Quantity of action (Physics), the product of the mass of a body by the space it runs through, and its velocity.…

Tendency or impulse to act. [R.] Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote.

Conveying sensory or afferent impulses; -- said of nerves.

Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc. ; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency. Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleas…

Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.

A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. Spence.