leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.-the beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.-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.-to beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb.-to drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate.