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verb

Miss v. t. (past & past part. missed; pres. part. missing)

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."

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." "We cannot miss him; he does make our fire, Fetch in our wood."

To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want; as, to miss an absent loved one. "Neither missed we anything... Nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him." "What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss."

To miss stays. (Naut.) See under Stay.

Miss v. i.

To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction. "Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss." "Flying bullets now, To execute his rage, appear too slow; They miss, or sweep but common souls away."

To fail to obtain, learn, or find; with of. "Upon the least reflection, we can not miss of them."

To go wrong; to err. (Obs.) "Amongst the angels, a whole legion Of wicked sprites did fall from happy bliss; What wonder then if one, of women all, did miss?"

To be absent, deficient, or wanting. (Obs.) See Missing, a. "What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend."

adjective

Missing adj. Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; lacking; wanting; not present when called or looked for. "Neither was there aught missing unto them." "For a time caught up to God, as once Moses was in the mount, and missing long."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Missing" Quotes from Famous Books

... him that, when we came back, if one of those things was missing I would kill him and his people by witchcraft; and if we died and he tried to steal the rifles I would come and haunt him and turn his cattle mad and his milk sour till life was a weariness, and would make the devils in the guns come ...

— King Solomon's Mines • H. Rider Haggard

... were ordered to return! Instead of the support marching to fill the gap between us, we were to go back to it. Bannister objected that a man was missing, Reardon through excess of zeal having vanished in the distance along the railroad. "Send out a man after him," said the sergeant. All the squad offered to go; Corder was a little the slowest, being leg-weary, but who do you think ...

— At Plattsburg • Allen French

... thought flashed across him that they might be those of some of his comrades, sent back by Lieutenant Winter to look for the missing men. ...

— Army Boys on German Soil • Homer Randall

... the easiest of all to explain," smiled T. B. "He was scared; he knew that I identified him with the missing Fallock; he knew, too, that I strongly suspected him of the murder of the two men in Brakely Square. Don't you see the whole thing fits together? He imported from various places on the Continent, and at various periods, workmen of every kind to complete the ...

— The Secret House • Edgar Wallace

... and stopping, as one fearful of trespassing on prohibited ground. When Mr. Trew called, he and Mrs. Mills conferred in undertones, breaking off when the girl came near, and speaking, in an unconvincing way, of an interesting murder in South London; Trew thought the police could find the missing man if they only went the right way about it. Great Titchfield Street, from eight o'clock in the morning till nearly eight at night, appeared to be enveloped in a dense fog, with Madame showing none ...

— Love at Paddington • W. Pett Ridge

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