Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This

American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

miss 1       (mĭs)  Pronunciation Key  v.   missed, miss·ing, miss·es v.   tr. To fail to hit, reach, catch, meet, or otherwise make contact with. To fail to perceive, understand, or experience: completely missed the point of the film. To fail to accomplish, achieve, or attain (a goal). To fail to attend or perform: never missed a day of work. To leave out; omit. To let go by; let slip: miss a chance. To escape or avoid: narrowly missed crashing into the tree. To discover the absence or loss of: I missed my book after getting off the bus. To feel the lack or loss of: Do you miss your family? v.   intr. To fail to hit or otherwise make contact with something: fired the final shot and missed again. To be unsuccessful; fail. To misfire, as an internal-combustion engine. n.   A failure to hit, succeed, or find. The misfiring of an engine. [Middle English missen, from Old English missan; see mei-1 in Indo-European roots.]

American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

miss·ing       (mĭs'ĭng)  Pronunciation Key  adj.   Not present; absent. Lost: a missing person; soldiers missing in action. Lacking; wanting: This book has 12 missing pages.

WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This

missing
adjective
1.	not able to be found; "missing in action"; "a missing person"
2.	nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking" [syn: lacking]

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Missing

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. [root]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.