(transitive, intransitive) To fail to hit. / (transitive) To fail to achieve or attain. / (transitive) To avoid; to escape.

A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used. / An unmarried woman; a girl. / A kept woman; a mistress.

A failure to hit. / A failure to obtain or accomplish. / An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give)

Form of address, now used chiefly for an unmarried woman; used chiefly of girls before the mid-1700s, and thereafter used also of adult women without regard to marital status.

(law) Mississippi, as used in case citations.

Initialism of medium intensity steady state. / Initialism of microbially induced sedimentary structure.

Not able to be located; gone, misplaced. / Not present when it (they) should be. / Of an internal combustion engine: running roughly due to an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular fault.

(statistics) A value that is missing.

simple past tense and past participle of miss

present participle of miss