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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

P`ANTING, ppr. [See Pant.] Palpitating; breathing with a rapid succession of inspirations and expirations; longing.
P`ANTING, n. Palpitation; rapid breathing; longing.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Moby Thesaurus

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