Definition of "panter"

Swiftly the gentle Charmer flies, / And to the tender Grief soft Air applies, / Which, warbling Mystic sounds, / Cements the bleeding Panter's Wounds.

c. 1700, William Congreve, On Mrs. Arabella Hunt Singing

Reputation—a mere barren reputation, that brings nothing with it, save a post obit bond on posterity—has lost its ancient value: and the panters after posthumous reputation are now closely confined to a few wrongheaded enthusiasts, […]

1840, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, volume 60, page 492

as though all the bread be committed unto the panter

a. 1536, William Tyndale, An Answer unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue