Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 146
Pulsatile (a.) Pulsating; throbbing, as a tumor.
Pulsatilla (n.) [NL.] (Bot.) A genus of ranunculaceous herbs including the pasque flower. {Anemone">This genus is now merged in {Anemone. Some species, as Anemone Pulsatilla, Anemone pratensis, and Anemone patens, are used medicinally.
Pulsatilla (n.) Includes a group of plants that in some classifications are included in the genus Anemone: pasqueflowers [syn: Pulsatilla, genus Pulsatilla].
Compare: Ranunculaceous
Ranunculaceous (a.) (Bot.)【植】毛莨屬植物的 Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants ({Ranunculaceae), of which the buttercup is the type, and which includes also the virgin's bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, meadow rue, and peony.
Pulsation (n.) (Physiol.) A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse.
Pulsation (n.) A single beat or throb of a series.
Pulsation (n.) A stroke or impulse by which some medium is affected, as in the propagation of sounds.
Pulsation (n.) (Law) Any touching of another's body willfully or in anger. This constitutes battery.
By the Cornelian law, pulsation as well as verberation is prohibited. -- Blackstone.
Pulsation (n.) (Electronics) A sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star" [syn: pulsation, pulsing, pulse, impulse].
Pulsation (n.) A periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity.
Pulsation (n.) The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart" [syn: pulse, pulsation, heartbeat, beat].
Pulsative (a.) Beating; throbbing.
Pulsator (n.) [L.] A beater; a striker.
Pulsator (n.) [L.] (Mech.) That which beats or throbs in working.
Pulsatory (a.) Capable of pulsating; throbbing. -- Sir H. Wotton.
Pulse (n.) Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.
If all the world Should, in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse. -- Milton.
Pulse (n.) (Physiol.) The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.
Note: In an artery the pulse is due to the expansion and contraction of the elastic walls of the artery by the action of the heart upon the column of blood in the arterial system. On the commencement of the diastole of the ventricle, the semilunar valves are closed, and the aorta recoils by its elasticity so as to force part of its contents into the vessels farther onwards. These, in turn, as they already contain a certain quantity of blood, expand, recover by an elastic recoil, and transmit the movement with diminished intensity. Thus a series of movements, gradually diminishing in intensity, pass along the arterial system (see the Note under Heart). For the sake of convenience, the radial artery at the wrist is generally chosen to detect the precise character of the pulse. The pulse rate varies with age, position, sex, stature, physical and psychical influences, etc.
Pulse (n.) Any measured or regular beat; any short, quick motion, regularly repeated, 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 according to the nature and species of the stroke. -- Burke.
Pulse glass, An instrument consisting to a glass tube with terminal bulbs, and containing ether or alcohol, which the heat of the hand causes to boil; -- so called from the pulsating motion of the liquid when thus warmed.
Pulse wave (Physiol.), The wave of increased pressure started by the ventricular systole, radiating from the semilunar valves over the arterial system, and gradually disappearing in the smaller branches.
The pulse wave travels over the arterial system at the rate of about 29.5 feet in a second. -- H. N. Martin.
To feel one's pulse. (a) To ascertain, by the sense of feeling, the condition of the arterial pulse.
To feel one's pulse. (b) Hence, to sound one's opinion; to try to discover one's mind.
Pulse (v. i.) To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb. --Ray.
Pulse (v. t.) To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate. [R.]
Pulse (n.) (Electronics) A sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star" [syn: pulsation, pulsing, pulse, impulse].
Pulse (n.) The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart" [syn: pulse, pulsation, heartbeat, beat].
Pulse (n.) The rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health [syn: pulse, pulse rate, heart rate].
Pulse (n.) Edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.).
Pulse (v.) Expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it" [syn: pulsate, throb, pulse].
Pulse (v.) Produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses; "pulse waves"; "a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube" [syn: pulse, pulsate].
Pulse (v.) Drive by or as if by pulsation; "A soft breeze pulsed the air".
Pulse, () (Dan. 1:12, 16), R.V. "herbs," vegetable food in general.
Pulse (n.) (Regular beat) (C1) [ C ] 脈搏 The regular beating of the heart, especially when it is felt at the wrist or side of the neck.
// The child's pulse was strong/ weak.
// Exercise increases your pulse rate.
Take sb's pulse (ph.) 測（某人的）脈搏 To hold someone's wrist and count how many times the heart beats in one minute.
Pulse (n.) (Regular beat) [ C ] （聲波或光波的）脈衝 A short period of energy that is repeated regularly, such as a short, loud sound or a short flash of light.
// The data, normally transmitted electronically, can be changed into pulses of light.
Pulse (n.) (Food) Pulses (pl.) (specialized) 豆類植物的種子；莢果；豆子 Seeds such as beans or peas that are cooked and eaten.
// Pulses include peas, lentils, and chickpeas.
Idiom: Have/ keep your finger on the pulse
Have/ keep your finger on the pulse (C2) 瞭解最新變化（進展）To be/stay familiar with the most recent changes or improvements.
// The situation changes daily, so you need to keep your finger on the pulse.
Idiom: Set someone's pulse racing
Set someone's pulse racing (also quicken someone's pulse) 使激動 To make someone excited.
// This is a movie that will set your pulse racing.
Pulse (v.) [ I ] （以規律且強有力的節拍）跳動，搏動，振動 To move or beat with a strong, regular rhythm.
// I could feel the blood pulsing through my veins.
Pulseless (a.) Having no pulsation; lifeless.
Pulselessness (n.) The state of being pulseless.
Pulsific (a.) Exciting the pulse; causing pulsation.
Pulsimeter (n.) A sphygmograph.
Pulsion (n.) The act of driving forward; propulsion; -- opposed to suction or traction.
Pulsive (a.) Tending to compel; compulsory.
Pulsometer (n.) A device, with valves, for raising water by steam, partly by atmospheric pressure, and partly by the direct action of the steam on the water, without the intervention of a piston; -- also called vacuum pump.
Pulsometer (n.) A pulsimeter.
Pult (v. t.) To put.
Pultaceous (a.) Macerated; softened; nearly fluid.
Pultesse (n.) Alt. of Pultise.
Pultise (n.) Poultry.
Pulu (n.) A vegetable substance consisting of soft, elastic, yellowish brown chaff, gathered in the Hawaiian Islands from the young fronds of free ferns of the genus Cibotium, chiefly C. Menziesii; -- used for stuffing mattresses, cushions, etc., and as an absorbent.
Purverable (a.) Capable of being reduced to fine powder.
Pulveraceous (a.) Having a finely powdered surface; pulverulent.
Pulverate (v. t.) To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverize.
Pulverine (n.) Ashes of barilla.
Pulverizable (a.) Admitting of being pulverized; pulverable.
Pulverization (n.) The action of reducing to dust or powder.
Pulverized (imp. & p. p.) of Pulverize.
Pulverizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pulverize.
Pulverize (v. t.) 使成粉末；研磨；把（液體）噴成霧；【口】把……徹底摧毀；粉碎 To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued.
Pulverize (v. i.) 變成粉 To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust; as, the stone pulverizes easily.
Pulverize (v.) Make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust; "pulverize the grains" [syn: powderize, powderise, powder, pulverize, pulverise].
Pulverize (v.) Destroy completely; "the wrecking ball demolished the building"; "demolish your enemies"; "pulverize the rebellion before it gets out of hand" [syn: demolish, pulverize, pulverise].
Pulverize (v.) Become powder or dust; "When it was blown up, the building powderized" [syn: powderize, pulverize, pulverise, powderise].
Pulverizer (n.) 粉碎者，研磨者；粉碎機，粉碎器；【農】闊齒耙 One who, or that which, pulverizes.
Pulverous (a.) 粉末的；粉狀的；滿是粉的Consisting of dust or powder; like powder.
Pulverulence (n.) The state of being pulverulent; abundance of dust or powder; dustiness.
Pulverulent (a.) Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty.
Pulvil (n.) A sweet-scented powder; pulvillio. [Written also pulville.] [Obs.] -- Gay.
Pulvil (v. t.) To apply pulvil to. [Obs.] -- Congreve. Pulvillio
Pulvillio (n.) Alt. of Pulvillo.
Pulvillo (n.) A kind of perfume in the form of a powder, formerly much used, -- often in little bags.
Pulvilli (n. pl. ) of Pulvillus.
Pulvillus (n.) One of the minute cushions on the feet of certain insects.
Pulvinar (n.) A prominence on the posterior part of the thalamus of the human brain.
Pulvinate (a.) Alt. of Pulvinated.
Pulvinated (a.) Curved convexly or swelled; as, a pulvinated frieze.
Pulvinated (a.) Having the form of a cushion.
Pulvinic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the decomposition of vulpinic acid, as a white crystalline substance.
Pulvinuli (n. pl. ) of Pulvinulus.
Pulvinulus (n.) Same as Pulvillus.
Puma (n.) A large American carnivore (Felis concolor), found from Canada to Patagonia, especially among the mountains. Its color is tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or stripes. Called also catamount, cougar, American lion, mountain lion, and panther or painter.
Puma (n.) [ C ] (Mainly UK) (US usually cougar) 美洲獅 A large, brown wild cat that lives in North and South America.
Pume (n.) A stint.
Pumicated (imp. & p. p.) of Pumicate.
Pumicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pumicate.
Pumicate (v. t.) To make smooth with pumice.
Pumice (n.) A very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a fibrous structure. It is supposed to be produced by the disengagement of watery vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone.
Pumiced (a.) Affected with a kind of chronic laminitis in which there is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot.
Pumiceous (a.) Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.
Pumice stone () Same as Pumice.
Pumiciform (a.) Resembling, or having the structure of, pumice.
Pummace (n.) Same as Pomace.
Pummel (n. & v. t.) Same as Pommel.
Pummel (v.) [ T ] ( -ll- or US usually -l- ) （尤指用雙拳）接連地捶打 To hit someone or something repeatedly, especially with your fists (= closed hands).
// The boxer had pummelled his opponent into submission by the end of the fourth round.
Pummel (v.) (Informal) （在體育比賽中）輕鬆打敗 To defeat someone easily at a sport.
// They were pummelled in the second round.
Pump (n.) A low shoe with a thin sole.
Pump (n.) An hydraulic machine, variously constructed, for raising or transferring fluids, consisting essentially of a moving piece or piston working in a hollow cylinder or other cavity, with valves properly placed for admitting or retaining the fluid as it is drawn or driven through them by the action of the piston.
Pumped (imp. & p. p.) of Pump.
pumping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pump.
Pump (v. t.) To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.
Pump (v. t.) To draw water, or the like, from; to from water by means of a pump; as, they pumped the well dry; to pump a ship.
Pump (v. t.) Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money, by persistent questioning or plying; to question or ply persistently in order to elicit something, as information, money, etc.
Pump (v. i.) To work, or raise water, a pump.
Pumpage (n.) That which is raised by pumps, or the work done by pumps.
Pumper (n.) One who pumps; the instrument or machine used in pumping.
Pumpernickel (n.) A sort of bread, made of unbolted rye, which forms the chief food of the Westphalian peasants. It is acid but nourishing.
Pumpet (n.) A pompet.
Pumping () a. & n. from pump.
Pumpion (n.) See Pumpkin.
Pumpkin (n.) A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.
Pumy (a.) Large and rounded.
Pun (v. t.) To pound.
Pun (n.) A play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of a word present an odd or ludicrous idea; a kind of quibble or equivocation.
Punned (imp. & p. p.) of Pun.
Punning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pun.
Pun (v. i.) To make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas is ludicrous; to play upon words; to quibble.
Pun (v. t.) To persuade or affect by a pun.
Punch (n.) 打洞器，鑽孔機，沖壓機，沖床，力量，毆打，混合甜飲料 A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; -- specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc.
Punch (n.) The buffoon or harlequin of a puppet show.
Punch (n.) A short, fat fellow; anything short and thick.
I . . . did hear them call their fat child punch, which pleased me mightily, that word being become a word of common use for all that is thick and short. -- Pepys.
Punch (n.) One of a breed of large, heavy draught horses; as, the Suffolk punch.
Punch (v. t.) 以拳重擊，開洞 To thrust against; to poke; as, to punch one with the end of a stick or the elbow.
Punch (n.) A thrust or blow. [Colloq.]
Punch (n.) A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die.
Punch (n.) (Pile Driving) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
Punch (n.) A prop, as for the roof of a mine.
Bell punch. See under Bell.
Belt punch (Mach.), A punch, or punch pliers, for making holes for lacings in the ends of driving belts.
Punch press. See Punching machine, under Punch, v. i.
Punch pliers, Pliers having a tubular, sharp-edged steel punch attached to one of the jaws, for perforating leather, paper, and the like.
Punched (imp. & p. p.) of Punch.
Punching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Punch.