err : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: err	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for err
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
err v to make a mistake or be incorrect [syn: err, mistake, slip] wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course" Synonym(s): stray, err, drift
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Err \Err\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Erred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Erring} (?; 277, 85).] [F. errer, L. errare; akin to G. irren, OHG. irran, v. t., irr[?]n, v. i., OS. irrien, Sw. irra, Dan. irre, Goth, a[a1]rzjan to lead astray, airzise astray.] 1. To wander; to roam; to stray. [Archaic] [bd]Why wilt thou err from me?[b8] --Keble. What seemeth to you, if there were to a man an hundred sheep and one of them hath erred. --Wyclif (Matt. xviii. 12). 2. To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at. [bd]My jealous aim might err.[b8] --Shak. 3. To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken. The man may err in his judgment of circumstances. --Tillotson. 4. To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin. Do they not err that devise evil? --Prov. xiv. 22. 5. To offend, as by erring.