| Miss (miss) |
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| Miss |
; pl.
Misses (-s z). [Contr. fr. mistress.] |
A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a
girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress,
5.
A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she
is a miss of sixteen.
A kept mistress. See Mistress,
4.
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.
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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.
To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get
without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to
persons.
To discover the absence or omission of; to
feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.
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To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true
direction.
To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with
of.
To go wrong; to err.
To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
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The
act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
Loss; want; felt absence.
Mistake; error; fault.
Harm from mistake.
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