pant

noun

1. 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.
2. (figuratively)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.”

3. (obsolete)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.”

4. A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).

   “To commemorate our 50th anniversary we've rolled out a new pant with our signature blue and white seams.”

5. (attributive)Of or relating to pants.

   “pant leg”

6. Any public drinking fountain.

verb

1. (ambitransitive)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.”

   “Charles had just slipp'd the bolt of the door, and running, caught me in his arms, and lifting me from the ground, with his lips glew'd to mine, bore me, trembling, panting, dying, with soft fears and tender wishes, to the bed”

2. (intransitive)To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.

   “As the hart panteth after the water brooks.”

   “Anyway, one of the men who panted after Cleopatra was a Roman general named Marc Anthony, who became so enraptured with the idea of being Cleopatra’s sex slave that he set fire to Rome just to impress her.”

3. (obsolete, transitive)To long for (something); to be eager for (something).

   “Then shall our hearts pant thee.”

4. (intransitive)Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.

   “Yet might her piteous heart be seen to pant and quake”

5. (intransitive)To sigh; to flutter; to languish.

   “[T]he whiſp'ring Breeze / Pants on the Leaves, and dies upon the Trees.”

6. (intransitive)To heave, as the breast.
7. (intransitive)To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.

name

1. A river in Essex, England, which forms the upper part of the Blackwater.
2. A locality in Austwick parish, North Yorkshire, England.
3. A village in Llanymynech and Pant parish, Shropshire, England, on the border with Wales (OS grid ref SJ2722).
4. A locality in Ayrshire, Scotland.
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