ERR

err. Err, v.i. to go out of the way, stray, mistake, do amiss

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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, aírzjan to lead astray, airzise astray.]] 1. 1. To wander; to roam; to stray. “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). 2. 2. To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at. “My jealous aim might err.” Shak.
3. 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. 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. 5. To offend, as by erring.