v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Erred p. pr. & vb. n. Erring ] [ F. errer, L. errare; akin to G. irren, OHG. irran, v. t., irrōn, v. i., OS. irrien, Sw. irra, Dan. irre, Goth, aírzjan to lead astray, airzise astray. ] 1. To wander; to roam; to stray. [ Archaic ] “Why wilt thou err from me?” Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

What seemeth to you, if there were to a man an hundred sheep and one of them hath erred. Wyclif (Matt. xviii. 12). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at. “My jealous aim might err.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken. [ 1913 Webster ]

The man may err in his judgment of circumstances. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Do they not err that devise evil? Prov. xiv. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To offend, as by erring. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Liable to error; fallible. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Liability to error. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. errabundus. ] Erratic. “Errabund guesses.” Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. errantia. ] A wandering; state of being in error. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. erende, erande, message, business, AS. ærende, ærend; akin to OS. arundi, OHG. arunti, Icel. eyrendi, örendi, erendi, Sw. ärende, Dan. ærende; perh. akin to AS. earu swift, Icel. örr, and to L. oriri to rise, E. orient. ] A special business intrusted to a messenger; something to be told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to do an errand. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have a secret errand to thee, O king. Judg. iii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will not eat till I have told mine errand. Gen. xxiv. 33. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any specific task, usually of a routine nature, requiring some form of travel, usually locally. An errand is often on behalf of someone else, but sometimes for one's own purposes. [ PJC ]

3. A mission. [ PJC ]

To run an errand, To perform an errand{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

n. One who wanders about. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. errant, p. pr. fr. OF. errer to travel, LL. iterare, fr. L. iter journey; confused somewhat with L. errare to err. See Eyre, and cf. Arrant, Itinerant. ] 1. Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving. [ 1913 Webster ]

Seven planets or errant stars in the lower orbs of heaven. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Notorious; notoriously bad; downright; arrant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Would make me an errant fool. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eng. Law) Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. errare to wander. See Err. ] (Zoöl.) A group of chætopod annelids, including those that are not confined to tubes. See Chætopoda. [ Written also Errantes. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The employment of a knight-errant. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]