pant

noun

1. 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. 2

   figurativeEager 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. 3

   obsoleteA 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

1. 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 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. 2

   To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.

   As the hart panteth after the water brooks.

   [object Object]

   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. 3

   obsoleteTo long for (something); to be eager for (something).

   Then shall our hearts pant thee.

4. 4

   Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.

   Yet might her piteous heart be seen to pant and quake

5. 5

   To sigh; to flutter; to languish.

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

6. 6

   To heave, as the breast.

7. 7

   To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.

noun

1. 1

   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.

2. 2

   Of or relating to pants.

   pant leg

3. 3

   A leg on a pair of trousers.

   he rolled up one of the black trouser pants on his left leg and searched for a vein.

noun

1. 1

   Any public drinking fountain.

Forms

plural

pants

past tense

panted

past participle

panted

present participle

panting

third person singular

pants