Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MISS'ING
MISS'ING, ppr. [from miss.]
- Failing to hit, to reach or to find; discovering to be wanting.
- adj. Lost; absent from the place where it was expected to be found; wanting. My horse is missing; my pen or my book is missing. For a time caught up to God, as once / Moses was in the mount, and missing long. Milton.
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