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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[From

Verb.

]

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.

ppr.

[from miss.] Failing to hit, to reach or to find; discovering to be wanting.

a. 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.