To fail of; come short of.
To feel the loss or absence of.
To fail of attainment; go wrong.
A girl or an unmarried woman.
Why, Miss Gwynneth, is that you? – Peccavi by E. W. Hornung
Come along, Miss Baring. – The Captain of the Kansas by Louis Tracy
But Miss von Schwertfeger would not tell. – The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann