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Definition of Panting
1. Noun. Breathing heavily (as after exertion).
Generic synonyms: Breathing, External Respiration, Respiration, Ventilation
Derivative terms: Heave, Pant, Pant
2. Noun. Any fabric used to make trousers.
Definition of Panting
1. Verb. (present participle of pant) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Panting
1. pant [v] - See also: pant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Panting
Literary usage of Panting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"In the former the two or three beams, in trying to restrain the panting movement
... If panting or other beams are placed at mid-depth in a deep hold (Fig. ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... held from flight The panting steeds of both their lords bereft. But that his
cry stung Glaucus to the quick ; Whose heart was troubled that he could not ..."
3. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"The Warrior's Ordeal — panting for the Knife — How Suffering is Courted — Stalwart
Endurance of Pain—The ... The boy of sixteen to twenty years, panting for ..."
4. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"Meantime, his father, now no father, stood, And wash'd his wounds by Tiber's
yellow flood: Oppress'd with anguish, panting, and o'er- spent, His fainting ..."
5. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"The river has done its stint, and appears not to flow, but lie at its length
reflecting the light, and the haze over the woods is like the inaudible panting ..."
6. The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Fanny Kemble, Kate Field, John William Cole (1882)
"woman sat silently contemplating our evolutions, and as we brought them to a
conclusion, and stood (not like the Graces) puffing and panting round her, ..."
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