A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1513, 1572-1623
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Pant, v. Also: panet-. [Late ME. (c 1440) and e.m.E. pante(n, pant, e.m.E. pant (Malory), paunt (1536), appar. related to OF. and MF. verbs in pant-, as pantoisier, pantiser, pantoyer, etc.] intr. To pant. —1513 Doug. v. v. 20.
He semyt porturyt pantand [Ruthven panetand] for the hete 1513 Ib. xii. xii. 234.
At sic debait that baith thai pant and blaw 1572 Satirical Poems xxxiii. 269.
Now mon thay wirk and labour, pech and pant … the bestialls gers [to] intak 1581-1623 James VI Poems I. 153/362.
& ellis that humoure grosse … him asthmatikke makkis, ay panting in a crosse 1591 Criminal Trials I. ii. 251.
That … thair came … sic ane flaffing in hir breist as itt had bene sum quick thing, peching and panting, heaving vp hir body