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