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.
Miss
(Miss) v. i.
1. To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss.
Bacon.
Flying bullets now,
To execute his rage, appear too slow;
They miss, or sweep but common souls away.
Waller. 2. To fail to obtain, learn, or find; — with of.
Upon the least reflection, we can not miss of them.
Atterbury. 3. To go wrong; to err. [Obs.]
Amongst the angels, a whole legion
Of wicked sprites did fall from happy bliss;
What wonder then if one,
of women all, did miss?
Spenser. 4. To be absent, deficient, or wanting. [Obs.] See Missing, a.
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
Shak. Miss
(Miss), n.
1. The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
2. Loss; want; felt absence. [Obs.]
There will be no great miss of those which are lost.
Locke. 3. Mistake; error; fault. Shak.
He did without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar.
Ascham. 4. Harm from mistake. [Obs.] Spenser.
Missa
(||Mis"sa) n.; pl. Missæ [LL. See 1st Mass.] (R.C.Ch.) The service or sacrifice of the Mass.
Missal
(Mis"sal) n. [LL. missale, liber missalis, from missa mass: cf. F. missel. See 1st Mass.] The
book containing the service of the Mass for the entire year; a Mass book.
Missal
(Mis"sal), a. Of or pertaining to the Mass, or to a missal or Mass book. Bp. Hall.
Missay
(Mis*say") v. t.
1. To say wrongly.
2. To speak evil of; to slander. [Obs.]