Miss

1. n. In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
2. n. A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
3. n. A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
4. n. A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.
5. v. i. To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
6. v. i. To fail to obtain, learn, or find; — with of.
7. v. i. To go wrong; to err.
8. v. i. To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
9. n. The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
10. n. Loss; want; felt absence.
11. 1n. 1 In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.