Dictionary entry

Miss (4)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Miss, n. 1. The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.

2. Loss; want; felt absence.

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. Spenser.