Used as a courtesy title before the surname or full name of a girl or single woman, A series of clothing sizes for women and girls of average height and proportions, Mistress_ a reduced form of this title, which, so reduced, came to be regarded, when prefixed to the name of a young woman or girl, as a sort of diminutive, and was especially applied to young girls (corresponding to master as applied to young boys), older unmarried girls or women being styled mistress even in the lifetime of the mother; later, and in present use, a title prefixed to the name of any unmarried woman or girl, intransitive verb_ To misfire, as an internal-combustion engine, To fail to hit or otherwise make contact with something, To escape or avoid
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