Emily Dickinson Lexicon

miss (-ed, -es, -ing), v. [OE.] (webplay: common, decay, road, way).

1. Be without; yearn for; have feelings of great loss, want, or absence.
2. Fail in aim; fail to hit or meet; be unsuccessful.
3. Be without; do without.
4. Fail to obtain; not find or discover; err in attempting to find.
5. Fail; mistakenly forget; omit; pass by; miscarry as by accident.
6. Discover something is not where it's supposed to be.