* There is diversity of usage in the application of this title to two or more persons of the same name. We may write either the Miss Browns or the Misses Brown.

Gay vanity, with smiles and kisses,
Was busy 'mongst the maids and misses. Cawthorn.

When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right. Locke.

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.

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.

Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss. Bacon.

Flying bullets now,
To execute his rage, appear too slow;
They miss, or sweep but common souls away. Waller.

Upon the least reflection, we can not miss of them. Atterbury.

Amongst the angels, a whole legion
Of wicked sprites did fall from happy bliss;
What wonder then if one, of women all, did miss? Spenser.

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. Shak.

There will be no great miss of those which are lost. Locke.

He did without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar. Ascham.