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| 3 results for missing | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Missing \Miss"ing\, a. [From {Miss}, v. i.] Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; wanting; not present when called or looked for. Neither was there aught missing unto them. --1 Sam. xxv. 7. For a time caught up to God, as once Moses was in the mount, and missing long. --Milton. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Miss \Miss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Missed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Missing}.] [AS. missan; akin to D. & G. missen, OHG. missan, Icel. missa, Sw. mista, Dan. miste. [fb]100. See {Mis-}, pref.] 1. 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. --Locke. 2. 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. --Prior. We cannot miss him; he does make our fire, Fetch in our wood. --Shak. 3. To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want. --Shak. Neither missed we anything . . . Nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him. --1 Sam. xxv. 15, 21. What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss. --Milton. {To miss stays}. (Naut.) See under {Stay}. | |
