KJV Dictionary - pant
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PANT
P`ANT, v.i.
1. To palpitate; to beat with preternatural violence or rapidity, as the heart in terror, or after hard labor, or in anxious desire or suspense.
Yet might her piteous heart be seen to pant and quake.
2. To have the breast heaving, as in short respiration or want of breath.
Pluto pants for breath from out his cell.
3. To play with intermission or declining strength.
The whispering breeze
Pants on the leaves and dies upon the trees.
4. To long; to desire ardently.
Who pants for glory, finds but short repose.
As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. Ps.42.
P`ANT, n. Palpitation of the heart.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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