miss

miss
   1. obsolete
   a mistress
   If a man kept a miss, he was not attending to the care and maintenance of his young female offspring:
    Priests, lawyers, keen physicians, kept misses. (Galloway, 1810)
   2. to fail to menstruate at due time
   Shortened form of miss a period and often with overtones of unwanted pregnancy:
    'Has 'er missed then?' 'No, but us've 'ad some worryin' times.' (conversation in South Devon between two males in 1948)
   Mis(s) is a common abbreviation for miscarriage.

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