MISS'ING, participle present tense [from miss.] Failing to hit, to reach or to find; discovering to be wanting. 1. adjective 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.
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