Word Meanings - PULSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• PULSE
  Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc. If all the world Should, in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse. Milton.
• WORLDLY
  1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
• PEASE
  1. A pea. "A peose." "Bread . . . of beans and of peses." Piers Plowman. 2. A plural form of Pea. See the Note under Pea.
• SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
  Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
• WORLDLY-MINDED
  Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
• WORLD-WIDE
  Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame. Tennyson.
• SHOULDERED
  Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
• SHOULDER
  The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
• WORLDLING
  A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments. A foutre for the world and worldlings base. Shak. If we consider the expectations of futurity, the worldling gives up the argument. Rogers.
• PULSELESSNESS
  The state of being pulseless.
• WORLDLYWISE; WORLDLY-WISE
  Wise in regard to things of this world. Bunyan.
• LEGUMINOUS
  Belonging to, or resembling, a very large natural order of plants , which bear legumes, including peas, beans, clover, locust trees, acacias, and mimosas. (more info) 1. Pertaining to pulse; consisting of pulse.
• WORLDLINESS
  The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly-mindedness.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• SEEDSMAN
  1. A sower; one who sows or scatters seed. The seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shak. 2. A person who deals in seeds.
• TEMPERANCE
  1. Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation,
• SHOULD
  Used as an auxiliary verb, to express a conditional or contingent act or state, or as a supposition of an actual fact; also, to express moral obligation ; e. g.: they should have come last week; if I should go; I should think you could go. "You
• WORLD
  worold; akin to OS. werold, D. wereld, OHG. weralt, worolt, werolt, werlt, G. welt, Icel. veröld, Sw. verld, Dan. verden; properly, the age of man, lifetime, humanity; AS. wer a man + a word akin to E. old; cf. AS. yld lifetime, age, ylde men,
• PULSELESS
  Having no pulsation; lifeless.
• REPULSER
  One who repulses, or drives back.
• HUMP-SHOULDERED
  Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
• EXPULSER
  An expeller. Cotgrave.
• REPULSE
  1. 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. 2. To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial; to reject; to send away;
• INTERWORLD
  A world between other worlds. Holland.
• DISTEMPERANCE
  Distemperature.
• EXPULSE
  To drive out; to expel. If charity be thus excluded and expulsed. Milton.
• UNDERWORLD
  1. The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth. That overspreads This underworld. Daniel. 2. The mythological place of departed souls; Hades. 3. The portion of the world which is below the horizon; the opposite
• WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
  An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
• APPEASER
  One who appeases; a pacifier.