Pant \Pant\ (p[.a]nt), 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. [1913 Webster]

Pluto plants for breath from out his cell. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

2. Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly; -- often used with for or after. [1913 Webster]

As the hart panteth after the water brooks. --Ps. xlii. 1. [1913 Webster]

Who pants for glory finds but short repose. --Pope. [1913 Webster]

3. To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

4. To sigh; to flutter; to languish. [Poetic] [1913 Webster]

The whispering breeze Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees. --Pope. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

panting \panting\ adj. Breathing laboriously or convulsively.

Syn: gasping, out-of-breath(predicate), pursy, short-winded, winded. [WordNet 1.5]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

panting \panting\ n. The act or process of breathing heavily, usually after exertion.

Syn: heaving. [WordNet 1.5]

2. Any fabric used to make trousers.

Syn: trousering. [WordNet 1.5]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

101 Moby Thesaurus words for "panting": abrupt, agog, alacritous, all agog, animated, anxious, asthmatic, avid, breakneck, breathing, breathless, breathlessness, bursting to, desirous, didder, disquiet, disquietude, dithers, dyspnea, eager, errhine, expiratory, fidgetiness, fidgets, flutter, forward, full of life, headlong, heaving, huffing, impatient, impetuous, impulsive, inquietude, inspiratory, keen, labored breathing, lively, nasal, out of breath, palpitation, pitapat, pitter-patter, pneumonic, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, prompt, puffing, pulmonary, pulmonic, quaking, quaver, quavering, quick, quiver, quivering, raring to, rash, ready, ready and willing, respiratory, restlessness, rhinal, shakes, shaking, shiver, shivers, short-breathed, short-winded, shortness of breath, shudder, sneezy, sniffling, sniffly, sniffy, snoring, snorting, snuffling, snuffly, snuffy, spirited, sternutatory, stertorous, sudden, throb, throbbing, tremble, trembling, tremor, trepidation, trepidity, twitter, unrest, vital, vivacious, vivid, wheezing, wheezy, winded, zestful

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

panting adj : breathing laboriously or convulsively [syn: blown, gasping, out of breath(p), pursy, short-winded, winded]

noun

1: breathing heavily (as after exertion) [syn: heaving]
2: any fabric used to make trousers [syn: trousering]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)