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Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly. As the hart panteth after the water brooks. Ps. xlii. 1. Who pants for glory finds but short repose. Pope.

See Pan-.

, n. See Pantofle. [Obs.]

See Cosmolabe.

See Pantograph.

The theory or practice of the medical profession; -- used in burlesque or ridicule.

One of the legs of the loose drawers worn by children and women; particularly, the lower part of such a garment, coming below the knee, often made in a separate piece; -- chiefly in the plural.

Aridiculous character, or an old dotard, in the Italian comedy; also, a buffoon in pantomimes. Addison. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon. Shak.

The character or performances of a pantaloon; buffoonery. [R.] Lamb.

That which assumes, or exists in, all forms.

Taking all forms.

A pantascopic camera.

Viewing all; taking a view of the whole. See under Camera.

One of the divisions of Flagellata, including the monads and allied forms.

A depository or place where all sorts of manufactured articles are collected for sale.

See under Telegraph.

One who pants. Congreve.

Of or pertaining to all the Teutonic races.

The doctrine that the universe, taken or conceived of as a whole, is God; the doctrine that there is no God but the combined force and laws which are manifested in the existing universe; cosmotheism.

One who holds to pantheism.