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noun
A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation.
Eager longing.
Indeed, the projections, cravings, and everyday frolics common to trysts among buzz-activist Hollywood stars and starlets, plus their many common folk imitators, go forward with eager pant.
A violent palpitation of the heart.
To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts, / Make her thanks bless thee. O thou day o' the world, / Chain mine arm'd neck; leap thou, attire and all; / Through proof of harness to my heart, and there / Ride on the pants triumphing.
verb
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 pants for breath from out his cell.
There is a cavern where my spirit / Was panted forth in anguish.
To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
As the hart panteth after the water brooks.
To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
Then shall our hearts pant thee.
Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
Yet might her piteous heart be seen to pant and quake
To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
[T]he whiſp'ring Breeze / Pants on the Leaves, and dies upon the Trees.
noun
A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
Of or relating to pants.
pant leg