DATE & MISS
DATE
(n.) That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made; as, the date of a letter, of a will, of a deed, of a coin. etc.
(n.) Given or assigned length of life; duration.
(v. t.) To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed, or a charter.
(n.) Assigned end; conclusion.
(v. i.) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from.
(v. t.) To note or fix the time of, as of an event; to give the date of; as, to date the building of the pyramids.
(n.) The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.
(n.) The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time; epoch; as, the date of a battle.
MISS

(n.) Mistake; error; fault.
(n.) A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
(n.) A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married.
(n.) Harm from mistake.
(v. i.) To go wrong; to err.
(n.) A kept mistress.
(n.) Loss; want; felt absence.
(v. i.) To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
(v. t.) To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.
(v. i.) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
(v. t.) 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.
(n.) The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
(n.) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
(v. t.) To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.
(v. i.) To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of.
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