amissing,ppl.a.|əˈmɪsɪŋ|[the phrase a-missing(seeaprep.1 12, 13)erroneously taken as a single word, as if from avb.to amiss; chiefly in Scotch writers.]=missing; wanting.1634–46J. Row (father)Hist.Kirk (1842) 131The Kirk-Register being amissing.
1680Kid inSpirit of Popery 7A Publick Spirit in contending for God..is much amissing amongst us.
1753Stewart's TrialApp.84The deponent..does not know by what means the said lock..now amissing, was lost.
1854H. MillerSch.& Schm. (1858) 10Only his sloop was amissing.
1873BurtonHist.Scotl.V. lvii,Examined as to what he had done with the valuables amissing.
