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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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"Missing" Quotes from Famous Books

... she had been selfish and careless. She not only felt ashamed of herself, but also very much afraid that something dreadful had happened to Katie, in which case she would be greatly to blame. She anxiously joined in the search for the missing child. I am sure you would never guess where she was found. In the watering trough! Not drowned, because the water was ...

— Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's • Sophie May

... done for years; she felt uplifted by the sense of relief from a burthensome duty, and of freedom to act independently on the dictates of her own intelligence. She would assert herself, she would show the others that she had acted rightly; and when at supper-time Mary was missing, and had not returned even at bed-time, there was much to do to soothe and comfort them, and much misconstruction to endure; but she took it all patiently, and it was a consolation to her to bear such annoyance ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... Glarus on this very blessed day of 1902 is riding to her buoys off Sausalito in San Francisco Bay, complete in every detail (bar a broken propeller shaft), not a rope missing, not a screw loose, not a plank started—a ...

— A Deal in Wheat - And Other Stories of the New and Old West • Frank Norris

... think him an effeminate fraud, these two bright, active women and that alert, energetic man. A faint color came into his cheek at the idea, and an uneasy sense that he had been in some way foolishly imprudent about his health. Again, they might be alarmed at missing him from the veranda; perhaps he had better have remained there; perhaps he ought to tell them that he had concluded to take their advice and lie down. He tried to rise, but the deep blue chasm before the window seemed to be swelling up ...

— A Phyllis of the Sierras • Bret Harte

... did return were soon hoisted in, but in the meanwhile eight destroyers and a couple of other craft had been sent on to steam down the coast in line abreast to see if by any chance the two missing ones had come down on the water. We were with this lot, and after an hour's steaming at 20 knots, by which time the island of Sylt was plainly visible about nine or ten miles dead ahead and no trace of the lost sheep had been seen, the ...

— Stand By! - Naval Sketches and Stories • Henry Taprell Dorling

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