3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Miss \Miss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Missed}; p. pr & vb n.
{Missing}.] [AS. missan; akin to D. & G. missen, OHG. missan,
Icel. missa, Sw mista, Dan. miste. [root]100. See {Mis-},
pref.]
1. To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing,
hearing, etc.; as to miss the mark one shoots at to miss
the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting
knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said
When a man misses his great end happiness, he will
acknowledge he judged not right --Locke.
2. To omit; to fail to have or to do to get without to
dispense with -- now seldom applied to persons.
She would never miss, one day A walk so fine, a
sight so gay. --Prior.
We cannot miss him he does make our fire, Fetch in
our wood. --Shak.
3. To discover the absence or omission of to feel the want
of to mourn the loss of to want --Shak.
Neither missed we anything . . . Nothing was missed
of all that pertained unto him --1 Sam. xxv.
15, 21.
What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss.
--Milton.
{To miss stays}. (Naut.) See under {Stay}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Missing \Miss"ing\, a. [From {Miss}, v. i.]
Absent from the place where it was expected to be found
lost; wanting; not present when called or looked for
Neither was there aught missing unto them --1 Sam.
xxv. 7.
For a time caught up to God, as once Moses was in the
mount, and missing long. --Milton.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
missing
adj 1: not existing; "innovation has been sadly lacking";
"character development is missing from the book" [syn:
{lacking(p)}, {nonexistent}, {wanting(a)}]
2: not able to be found "missing in action"; "a missing
person"
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