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Miss
MISS, n.
1. The title of a young woman or girl; as little masters and misses.
2. A kept mistress; a prostitute retained; a concubine.
MISS, v.t. [L. mitto, misi; omitto, omisi.]
1. To fail in aim; to fail of reaching the object; not to hit; as, to miss the mark; to miss the object intended.
2. To fail of finding the right way; to err in attempting to find; as, to miss the way or the road.
3. To fail of obtaining.
Orgalus feared nothing but to miss Parthenia.
4. To learn or discover that something is wanting, or not where it was supposed to be; as, to miss one's snuff-box; I missed the first volume of Livy.
Neither missed we any thing--. Nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. 1 Sam 25.
5. To be without; as, we cannot miss him.
6. To omit; to pass by; to go without; to fail to have; as, to miss a meal of victuals.
She would never miss one day
A walk so fine, a sight so gay.
7. To perceive the want of.
What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss,
He who has a firm sincere friend, may want all the rest without missing them.
8. To fail of seeing or finding.
MISS, v.i. To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
Flying bullets now,
To execute his rage, appear too slow;
They miss, or sweep but common souls away.
1. Not to succeed; to fail.
Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss--
2. To fail; to miscarry, as by accident.
The invention all admired, and each, how he
To be the inventor missed.
3. To fail to obtain, learn or find; with of.
On the least reflection, we can miss of them.
4. To fail; to mistake.
MISS, n. Loss; want.
There will be no great miss of those which are lost.
1. Mistake; error.
He did without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar. [Little used.]
2. Harm from mistake.
miss appears in definitions for these words:
Aim Amiss Apostle Apostolate Armature Arrow Balk Ballistic Ballistics Bishop Charity Clip Confluence Conge Cross-bow Dart Dative Dean Delirium Desiderate Disciple Emissary Epistle Err Fail Fall Falter Fault Flood Form Hit Improve Inquire Inundate Jaculation Levee Level Lose Losing Mademoiselle Mark Mass Master Melancholy Message Mis Mispell Mispend Miss Misserve Misshape Misshaped Missile Missing Mission Missionary Missioner Missive Misspelled Misspend Misspense Misspent Misspoke Misstate Misstatement Missy Mistle Misy Mouth Now Odd Palaver Prairy Raise Random Recall Reconcile River Robust Romp Sawyer Shaft Shot Skip Stay Tactics Teens Testudo Throw Thrush Tragic Tributary Unavoidable Unbeliever Unbelieving Unmissed Unshapen Want West
Aim Amiss Apostle Apostolate Armature Arrow Balk Ballistic Ballistics Bishop Charity Clip Confluence Conge Cross-bow Dart Dative Dean Delirium Desiderate Disciple Emissary Epistle Err Fail Fall Falter Fault Flood Form Hit Improve Inquire Inundate Jaculation Levee Level Lose Losing Mademoiselle Mark Mass Master Melancholy Message Mis Mispell Mispend Miss Misserve Misshape Misshaped Missile Missing Mission Missionary Missioner Missive Misspelled Misspend Misspense Misspent Misspoke Misstate Misstatement Missy Mistle Misy Mouth Now Odd Palaver Prairy Raise Random Recall Reconcile River Robust Romp Sawyer Shaft Shot Skip Stay Tactics Teens Testudo Throw Thrush Tragic Tributary Unavoidable Unbeliever Unbelieving Unmissed Unshapen Want West
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