noun harm from mistake.
2. miss ·noun mistake; error; fault.
3. miss ·noun loss; want; felt absence.
4. miss ·noun a kept mistress. ·see mistress, 4.
5. miss ·vi to be absent, deficient, or wanting.
6. miss ·vi to go wrong; to err.
7. miss ·vi to fail to obtain, learn, or find;
with of.
8. miss ·noun the act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, ·etc.
9. miss ·noun a young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
10. miss ·vi to fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
11. miss ·noun a title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. ·see mistress, 5.
12. miss ·vt to discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.
13. miss ·noun 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.
14. miss ·vt to omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with;
now seldom applied to persons.
15. miss ·vt 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.