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Miss
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; - now seldom applied to persons.
(2):
(n.) A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
(3):
(n.) A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
(4):
(n.) A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.
(5):
(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.
(6):
(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.
(7):
(v. i.) To fail to obtain, learn, or find; - with of.
(8):
(v. t.) To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.
(9):
(n.) Harm from mistake.
(10):
(n.) Mistake; error; fault.
(11):
(v. i.) To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
(12):
(n.) The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
(13):
(v. i.) To go wrong; to err.
(14):
(v. i.) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
(15):
(n.) Loss; want; felt absence.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Miss'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/m/miss.html. 1828.
