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Definition of miss

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Miss (v. t.) 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..

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Readmittance :: Readmittance (n.) Allowance to enter again; a second admission.

Cornet :: Cornet (n.) The lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office was abolished in 1871..

Pasticcio :: Pasticcio (n.) A falsified work of art, as a vase or statue made up of parts of original works, with missing parts supplied..

Paraleipsis :: Paraleipsis (n.) A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice..

Commission :: Commission (v. t.) To give a commission to; to furnish with a commission; to empower or authorize; as, to commission persons to perform certain acts; to commission an officer..

Missioner :: Missioner (n.) A missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission, n., 6..

Supplicatingly :: Supplicate (v. i.) To make petition with earnestness and submission; to implore.

Trip :: Trip (v. t.) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.

Wanting :: Wanting (a.) Absent; lacking; missing; also, deficient; destitute; needy; as, one of the twelve is wanting; I shall not be wanting in exertion..

Admittance :: Admittance (n.) Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument..

Shave :: Shave (v. t.) The act of passing very near to, so as almost to graze; as, the bullet missed by a close shave..

Volitive :: Volitive (a.) Used in expressing a wish or permission as, volitive proposition..

Demise :: Demise (n.) Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor..

Fail :: Fail (v. t.) To miss of attaining; to lose.

Tributary :: Tributary (a.) Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace..

Mailable :: Mailable (a.) Admissible lawfully into the mail.

Incompetent :: Incompetent (a.) Not lying within one's competency, capacity, or authorized power; not permissible..

Subdued :: Subdued (a.) Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive; mild.

Installation :: Installation (n.) The whole of a system of machines, apparatus, and accessories, when set up and arranged for practical working, as in electric lighting, transmission of power, etc..

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is..