TO FEEL ONE’S PULSE, verb. phr. (colloquial).—1.  To gauge opinions, views, feelings, &c.; TO SOUND (q.v.); TO TAKE ONE’S MEASURE (q.v.).

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  d. 1843.  SOUTHEY, Letters, iv. 139. So much matter has been ferretted out that this Government wishes to tell its own story, and MY PULSE WAS FELT.

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  2.  (venery).—To grope a woman.

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  c. 1650.  BRATHWAITE, Barnaby’s Journal (1723), 50, 51.

          Thence to Meredin did steer I,
Where grown footsore, and sore weary,
I repos’d, where I chuck’d Joan a,
FELT HER PULSE (Hopitem in genu cepi).

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