miss

miss n

clipping of mistress.

  1. Mistress; title for a young lady.

miss [-ed, -es, -ing] v

OE.

  1. Be without; yearn for; have feelings of great loss, want, or absence.
  2. Fail in aim; fail to hit or meet; be unsuccessful.
  3. Be without; do without.
  4. Fail to obtain; not find or discover; err in attempting to find.
  5. Fail; mistakenly forget; omit; pass by; miscarry as by accident.
  6. Discover something is not where it's supposed to be.