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panting |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pant \Pant\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Panted}; p. pr & vb n. {Panting}.] [Cf. F. panteler to gasp for breath, OF panteisier to be breathless, F. pantois out of breath; perh. akin to E. 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. --Dryden. 2. Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly. 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. --Spenser. 4. To sigh; to flutter; to languish. [Poetic] The whispering breeze Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees. --Pope. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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}]
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