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<hw>Er*ra"tum</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Errata</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L., fr. <ets>errare</ets>, <ets>erratum</ets>, to wander, err. See <er>Err</er>.]</ety> <def>An error or mistake in writing or printing.</def>

<blockquote>A single <b>erratum</b> may knock out the brains of a whole passage. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Erthine</h1> <Xpage=508>

<hw>Er"thine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/; <?/ in + <?/, <?/, nose: cf. F. <ets>errhin</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory.</def> <i>Coxe</i>. -- <def2><tt>a.</tt> <def>Causing or increasing secretion of nasal mucus.</def></def2>

<h1>Erroneous</h1> <Xpage=508>

<hw>Er*ro"ne*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>erroneus</ets>, fr. <ets>errare</ets> to err. See <er>Err</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Erroneous</i> circulation."

<i>Arbuthnot.</i>

<blockquote>Stopped much of the <b>erroneous</b> light, which otherwise would have disturbed the vision. <i>Sir I. Newman.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Misleading; misled; mistaking.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>An <b>erroneous</b> conscience commands us to do what we ought to omit. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Containing error; not conformed to truth or justice; incorrect; false; mistaken; <as>as, an <ex>erroneous</ex> doctrine; <ex>erroneous</ex> opinion, observation, deduction, view, etc.</as></def> -- <wordforms><wf>Er*ro"ne*ous*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Er*ro"ne*ous*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Error</h1> <Xpage=508>

<hw>Er"ror</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>error</ets>, <ets>errur</ets>, F. <ets>erreur</ets>, L. <ets>error</ets>, fr. <ets>errare</ets> to err. See <er>Err</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A wandering; a roving or irregular course.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The rest of his journey, his <b>error</b> by sea. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A wandering or deviation from the right course or standard; irregularity; mistake; inaccuracy; something made wrong or left wrong; <as>as, an <ex>error</ex> in writing or in printing; a clerical <ex>error</ex>.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension.</def>

<blockquote>H<?/ judgment was often in <b>error</b>, though his candor remained unimpaired. <i>Bancroft.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault.</def>

<i>Ps. xix. 12.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <def>The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Mensuration)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The difference between the observed value of a quantity and that which is taken or computed to be the true value; -- sometimes called <altname>residual error</altname>.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Law.)</fld> <def>A mistake in the proceedings of a court of record in matters of law or of fact.</def>

<p><b>8.</b> <fld>(Baseball)</fld> <def>A fault of a player of the side in the field which results in failure to put out a player on the other side, or gives him an unearned base.</def>

<cs><mcol><col>Law of error</col>, &or; <col>Law of frequency of error</col></mcol> <fld>(Mensuration)</fld>, <cd>the law which expresses the relation between the magnitude of an error and the frequency with which that error will be committed in making a large number of careful measurements of a quantity.</cd> -- <col>Probable error</col>. <fld>(Mensuration)</fld> <cd>See under <er>Probable</er>.</cd> -- <col>Writ of error</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>an original writ, which lies after judgment in an action at law, in a court of record, to correct some alleged error in the proceedings, or in the judgment of the court.</cd></cs>

<i>Bouvier. Burrill.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- Mistake; fault; blunder; failure; fallacy; delusion; hallucination; sin. See <er>Blunder</er>.</syn>