Definition for MISS'ING

MISS'ING, ppr. [from miss.]

  1. Failing to hit, to reach or to find; discovering to be wanting.
  2. 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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