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Pant v. i. [imp. & p. p. Panted; p. pr. & vb. n. Panting.]
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. --Dryden.
2. Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly; -- often used with for or after.
As the hart panteth after the water brooks. --Ps. xlii. 1.
Who pants for glory finds but short repose. --Pope.
3. To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart.
4. To sigh; to flutter; to languish. [Poetic]
The whispering breeze
Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees. --Pope.
panting
adj : breathing laboriously or convulsively [syn: blown, gasping,
out of breath(p), pursy, short-winded, winded]
n 1: breathing heavily (as after exertion) [syn: heaving]
2: any fabric used to make trousers [syn: trousering]