Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Missing; wanting.
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- adjective
Missing ,lacking .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yes | No | Report from mike bleau wrote 1 year 10 weeks ago there once was a man afishing, whose wife he could not listen though he got his line wet, he would never forget, the day she came up amissing
Florida Keys Swordfish Limerick Contest John Merwin 2008
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“I trust they will take the opportunity of quiet to go through the roll call, and inquire then who are amissing.”
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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Of this the Sub – Prior was the more convinced, when, feeling in his bosom for the Book which he had brought off from the Tower of Glendearg, he found it was amissing, which he could only account for by supposing it had been stolen from him during his trance.
The Monastery 2008
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He believed that no one would hear him without surprise, when he stated that the father of this infant now amissing, and said by the learned Advocate to have been murdered, was no other than the notorious George
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WHITFIELD: Chicago area police have stepped up their search for amissing pharmaceutical sales rep.
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Rove needs amissing white girl or something quick.
Think Progress » FBI Investigating Voter Intimidation In Virginia 2006
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Inch of Perth, on or about the year 1392; a man was amissing on one side, whose room was filled by a little bandy-legged citizen of Perth.
Rob Roy 2005
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A flock of a hundred sheep, although small, is yet sufficiently considerable to render it impossible for the shepherd to detect the absence of one by merely looking to them in the lump and from a distance; he must have minutely inspected them ere he discovered that one was amissing.
The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot
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When property went amissing, the owner repaired to the "prophet;" when cattle died, he named the witch who had killed them; and when any one became sick, Adam Donald supplied a remedy either by charms or herbs.
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The sixth lecture having temporarily gone amissing before its delivery, Dr Mitchell prepared a rescension of it.
The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell
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