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To wander; to roam; to stray. [Archaic] "Why wilt thou err from me" Keble. What seemeth to you, if there were to a man an hundred sheep and one of them hath erred. Wyclif (Matt. xviii. 12).

Liable to error; fallible.

Liability to error. Dr. H. More.

Erratic. "Errabund guesses." Southey.

A wandering; state of being in error.

re 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. I have a secret errand to thee, O king. Judg. iii. 19. I will not eat till I have told mine errand. Gen. xxiv. 33. mission.

ring; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving. Seven planets or errant stars in the lower orbs of heaven. Sir T. Browne.

od annelids, including those that are not confined to tubes. See Chætopoda. [Written also Errantes.]

The employment of a knight-errant. Johnson.

See Erratum.

- hence, applied to the planets as distinguished from the fixed stars. The earth and each erratic world. Blackmore.

Erratic. -- Er*rat"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Er*rat"ic*al*ness, n.

A wandering; a roving about. [Obs.] Cockeram.

An error or mistake in writing or printing. A single erratum may knock out the brains of a whole passage. Cowper.

A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory. Coxe. -- a.

ering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural. [Obs.] "Erroneous circulation." Arbuthnot. Stopped much of the erroneous light, which otherwise would have disturbed the vision. Sir I. Newman.

A wandering; a roving or irregular course. [Obs.] The rest of his journey, his error by sea. B. Jonson.

Full of error; wrong. Foxe.

One who encourages and propagates error; one who holds to error.

To wander; to stray. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.