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eat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate; -- said of the heart, pulse, etc. My heart Throbs to know one thing. Shak. Here may his head lie on my throbbing breast. Shak.

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

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

To throb, as the heart. [R.] Dryden.

Palpitating; throbbing; trembling. Carlyle.

To beat rapidly and more strongly than usual; to throb; to bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; -- said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal, as from excitement.

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

To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart. Spenser.

To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart. The heart of a viper or frog will continue to pulsate long after it is taken from the body. E. Darwin.

Pulsating; throbbing, as a tumor.

A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse.

Beating; throbbing.

That which beats or throbs in working.

Capable of pulsating; throbbing. Sir H. Wotton. .

The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.

To throb; to quiver. [Local & Vulgar]

To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain. These preachers make His head to shoot and ache. Herbert.

A throb or beat, as of the heart. Tennyson.

ence, to affect, as if by something that pierces or pricks; to cause to have a shivering, throbbing, tingling, or exquisite sensation; to pierce; to penetrate. To bathe in flery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick- ribbed ice. Shak. Vivid and picturesque turns of expression which thrill the M. Arnold. The…