To fail to obtain, learn, or find; – with of.

To go wrong; to err.

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.

To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true
direction.

To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to
dispense with; – now seldom applied to persons.

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.

A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of
sixteen.

A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman
who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.

To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want
of; to mourn the loss of; to want.