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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

Part of speech: noun (n.)

One who wanders about. [Obs.] Fuller.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Wandering; 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.

2. Notorious; notoriously bad; downright; arrant. Would make me an errant fool. B. Jonson.

3. Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large. Mozley & W.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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