Pant
Pant (pȧnt) , intransitive verb
[Compare French panteler to gasp for breath, Old French panteisier to be breathless, French pantois out of breath; perh. akin to English phantom, the verb prob. orig. meaning, to have the nightmare.]
1.
To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
Pluto plants for breath from out his cell.
2.
To long eagerly; to desire earnestly; -- often used with for or after.
As the hart panteth after the water brooks.
Who pants for glory finds but short repose.
3.
To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart. — Spenser
4.
To sigh; to flutter; to languish. [Poetic]
The whispering breeze
Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees.
Pant , transitive verb
1.
To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.
There is a cavern where my spirit
Was panted forth in anguish.
2.
To long for; to be eager after. [Rare]
Then shall our hearts pant thee.
Pant , noun
1.
A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp. — Drayton
2.
A violent palpitation of the heart. — Shakespeare
pant , noun
A single leg of a pair of pants. See pants.
pant , adjective
Of or pertaining to pants.