(Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.
(fashion) A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
(figurative) Eager longing.
(obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.
(used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.
A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation.
verb
(intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
(intransitive) To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
(intransitive) To heave, as the breast.
(intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
(intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
(transitive, 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.
(transitive, obsolete) To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
