noun

• (figurative) Eager longing.
  "Indeed, the projections, cravings, and everyday frolics common to trysts among buzz-activist Hollywood stars and starlets, plus their many common folk imitators, go forward with eager pant."
• (obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.
  "To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts, / Make her thanks bless thee. O thou day o' the world, / Chain mine arm'd neck; leap thou, attire and all; / Through proof of harness to my heart, and there / Ride on the pants triumphing."

verb

• (ambitransitive) 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 pants for breath from out his cell."
• (intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
  "As the hart panteth after the water brooks."
• (transitive, obsolete) To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
  "Then shall our hearts pant thee."
• (intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
  "Yet might her piteous heart be seen to pant and quake"

noun

• (fashion) A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
• (attributive) Of or relating to pants.
  "pant leg"

noun

• (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.