pant

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To breathe rapidly in short gasps, as after exertion.
2. v. To beat loudly or heavily; throb or pulsate.
3. v. To give off loud puffs, especially while moving.
4. v. To long demonstratively; yearn: was panting for a chance to play.
5. v. To utter hurriedly or breathlessly: I panted my congratulations to the winner of the race.
6. n. A short labored breath; a gasp.
7. n. A throb; a pulsation.
8. n. A short loud puff, as of steam from an engine.
9. n. Trousers. Often used in the plural.
10. n. Underpants. Often used in the plural.
11. idiom. with (one's) pants down Slang In an embarrassing position.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To breathe hard or quickly; gasp with open mouth and heaving breast, as after exertion; gasp with excited eagerness.
2. To throb or heave with violence or rapidity, as the heart or the breast after exertion or emotion.
3. To bulge alternately in and out, as the skin of iron ships when the plating is structurally very weak.
4. To languish; pine.
5. To long with breathless eagerness; desire greatly or with agitation: with for or after.
6. Synonyms To puff, blow.
7. To yearn, sigh, hunger, thirst.
8. To breathe (out) in a labored manner; gasp (out) with a spasmodic effort.
9. To long for; desire with eagerness and agitation.
10. n. A quick, short effort of breathing; a gasp.
11. n. A throb, as of the heart.
12. n. A public fountain or well in a town or village.

Wiktionary

1. n. a public drinking fountain in Scotland and North-East England
2. n. fashion A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
3. n. used attributively as a modifier Of or relating to pants.
4. n. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
5. n. obsolete A violent palpitation of the heart.
6. v. intransitive 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.
7. v. transitive To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
8. v. intransitive To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
9. v. intransitive Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
10. v. intransitive To sigh; to flutter; to languish.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. 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.
2. v. To long eagerly; to desire earnestly; -- often used with for or after.
3. v. To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart.
4. v. Poetic To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
5. v. To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.
6. v. rare To long for; to be eager after.
7. n. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
8. n. A violent palpitation of the heart.
9. n. A single leg of a pair of pants. See pants.
10. adj. Of or pertaining to pants.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open
2. n. (usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately
3. v. utter while panting, as if out of breath
4. v. breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
5. n. the noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine)