Miss

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Harm from mistake.

II. Miss ·noun Mistake; error; fault.

III. Miss ·noun Loss; want; felt absence.

IV. Miss ·noun A kept mistress. ·see Mistress, 4.

V. Miss ·vi To be absent, deficient, or wanting.

VI. Miss ·vi To go wrong; to Err.

VII. Miss ·vi To fail to obtain, learn, or find;

— with of.

VIII. Miss ·noun The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, ·etc.

IX. Miss ·noun A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.

X. Miss ·vi To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.

XI. Miss ·noun A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. ·see Mistress, 5.

XII. Miss ·vt To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to Want.

XIII. Miss ·noun In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.

XIV. Miss ·vt To Omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with;

— now seldom applied to persons.

XV. Miss ·vt 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.

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