miss its/the mark

: to fail to hit, reach, or contact

: to discover or feel the absence of

: to fail to obtain

: disadvantage or regret resulting from loss

: a failure to hit

: a failure to attain a desired result

used as a title prefixed to the name of an unmarried woman or girl

used before the name of a place or of a line of activity or before some epithet to form a title for a usually young unmarried female who is representative of the thing indicated

: young lady

: a boundary land

: a conspicuous object serving as a guide for travelers

: something (such as a line, notch, or fixed object) designed to record position

: to fix or trace out the bounds or limits of

: to plot the course of : chart

: to set apart by or as if by a line or boundary

: any of various old European units of weight used especially for gold and silver

: a unit of value:

: an old English unit equal to 13s 4d

: an early Jewish Christian traditionally identified as the writer of the Gospel of Mark —called also John Mark

: the second Gospel (see ¹gospel 1) in the New Testament — see Bible Table

: a king of Cornwall, uncle of Tristram, and husband of Isolde