From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Miss \Miss\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Missed} (m[i^]st); p. pr. & vb. n. {Missing}.] [AS. missan; akin to D. & G. missen, OHG. missan, Icel. missa, Sw. mista, Dan. miste. [root]100. See {Mis-}, pref.]
1. To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said.
When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right. --Locke.
2. To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.
She would never miss, one day, A walk so fine, a sight so gay. --Prior.
We cannot miss him; he does make our fire, Fetch in our wood. --Shak.
3. To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want; as, to miss an absent loved one. --Shak.
Neither missed we anything . . . Nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him. --1 Sam. xxv. 15, 21.
What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss. --Milton.
{To miss stays}. (Naut.) See under {Stay}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Missing \Miss"ing\, adjective [From {Miss}, verb (used without an object)] Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; lacking; wanting; not present when called or looked for.
Neither was there aught missing unto them. --1 Sam. xxv. 7.
For a time caught up to God, as once Moses was in the mount, and missing long. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
missing
adjective
1: not existing; "innovation has been sadly lacking"; "character development is missing from the book" [syn: {lacking(p)}, {nonexistent}, {wanting(a)}]
2: not able to be found; "missing in action"; "a missing person"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "missing": absconded, absent, arrested, away, bankrupt in, bare of, bereft of, callow, defective, deficient, deleted, denuded of, departed, deprived of, destitute of, devoid, devoid of, disappeared, embryonic, empty of, existless, extinct, failing, for want of, forlorn of, gone, gone away, hypoplastic, immature, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in default of, in short supply, in want of, inadequate, incomplete, infant, lacking, lost, lost to sight, lost to view, minus, needing, negative, no longer present, no more, nonattendant, nonexistent, not found, not present, null, omitted, out of, out of pocket, out of sight, part, partial, past and gone, patchy, scant, scant of, scanty, scrappy, short, short of, shy, shy of, sketchy, subtracted, taken away, unblessed with, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unexisting, unpossessed of, vacuous, vanished, void, void of, wanting, without being
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