eructt (erukt)

t. [= It. eruttare = Sp. eruc tar, Ætna in times past hath eructated such huge gobbets of Howell, Letters, I. i. 27. IMG:content-0699.png:[blocks in formation] ersh, n. erst (èrst), adv . [Early mod. E. (dial.) also yerst ; erst , arst , ærst, erest, arest , first, once, formerly, for the first time, @rest , adv., first (cf. adj. ærest a , ME. erste , the first), superl. of ær , before, formerly, sooner, in pos ição tive use soon, early: see erel, early , etc.] 1. First; at first; at the beginning. On of Ector owne brether, that I erst neuenyt, And Modern us, the mayn kyng, on the mon set. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6792. 2. Once; formerly; long ago. Once All was made; not by the hand of Fortune (As fond Demo crit us did yerst importune). Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 1. Gentle spirit of sweetest humour, who erst did sit upon the easy pen of my beloved Cervantes. Sterne , Tristram Shandy, ix. 24. 3. Before; till then or now; hitherto. Hony and wex as erst is no we to make, What shal be saide of wyne is tente to take. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 196. Whence look the Soldier's Cheeks dismay'd and pale? Erst ever dreadful, know they now to dread? Prior, Ode to the Queen. [Archaic in all senses.] At erstt. ( a ) At first; for the first time. (b) At length, at present: especially with now ( now at erst). In dremes, quod Valerian, han we be Unto this tyme, brother myn, ywis; But now at erst in trout he our dwelling is. such a mean. The law of error is a law connecting the relative magnitudes of erro errors with their frequency. The law is that the logarithm of the frequency is proportional to the square of the error. This law holds only for the accidental part of the error, and only for certain kinds of observations, and to those only when certain observations affected by abnormal errors have been struck out. The probable error is a magnitude which one half the accidental errors would in the long run exceed; this is a well established but unfortunate expre ion. The mean error is the quadratic mean of the errors of observations similar to given observations. 6. In law, a mistake in a judicial determination of a court, whether in deciding wrongly on the merits or ruling wrongly on an incidental point, IMG:content-0700.png:[blocks in formation] The enigmas which of erst puzzled the brains of So crates erstt, a. [ME. erste, Glanville, Pre-existence of Souls, xiv. The beautiful dark tre es, erstwhile so smoothly braided about the small head,... were tangled and matted until no trace of their former lustre remained. Harper's Mag . , LXXVI. 227. 7t. Perplexity; anxiety; concern. He thought well in his corage that the i right high men en and gretter of a state than he cowde thinke, and a-boute his herte com so grete errour that it wete all his visage with teeres of his yien. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 318. A ignment of errors, in law, specification of the errors suggested or objected to. - Clerical error, a mistake in writing; the erroneous writing of one thing for another; erubescence, erubescency (er-ö-bes'ens, -ens i), n. [= F. érubescence = Sp. erubescencia = It. erubescenza, erubescenzia, erubescent i a, ne), shame), erubescen ( t- ) s, specifically, redne of the skin or ing red; spec i other surface; a blush. erubescent (er-ö-bes'ent), a. [= F. érubescent It. erubescente, a slip of the pen: from all writers having been formerly called clerics or clerks. - Court of error, court of errors, a court exercising appellate jurisdiction by means of writs of error. The highest judicial court of Connecticut is called the Supreme Court of Errors, those of Delaware and New Jersey the Courts of Errors and Appeals. -Error in fact, a mistake of fact, or ignorance of a fact, embraced in a judicial proceeding and affecting its validity, as, for example, the granting of judgment against an infant as if he were adult. Error of a clock, the difference between the time indicated by a clock and the time which the clock is intended to indicate, whether sidereal or mean time. - Error of collimation. See collimation. - Joinder in error, in law, the taking of i ue on the suggestion of error. - Writ of error, a proce i ued by a court of review to the inferior court, suggesting that error has been committed, and requiring the record to be sent up for examination: now generally superseded by appeal. errostorske Buller rore blundt. One who errs, or who encourages and propagates =Syn. 2 and 3. Mistake, etc. error. [Rare.] Especially in the former of these Epistles [Colo i ans and Ephesians) we find that the Apostle Paul censures a cla of errorists who are not separated from the Church, but who cherish and inculcate notions evidently Gnostical in their character. G. P. Fisher , Begin. of Christianity, p. 387. ers (èrs), n. [F. ers = Pr. ers = Cat. er = Sp. yervo = It. ervo, ervum , the bitter vetch: see Ervum .] A species of vetch, Vicia Ervilia , Erse (èrs), a . and n. [Also Earse ; a corruption of Irish .] I. a. Of or belonging to the Celts of Ireland and Scotland or their language: as, the Erse tongue. The native peasantry everywhere sang Erse songs in Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. praise of Tyrconnel. = bescere, grow red, redden, esp. for shame, blush, tarnished. Its surface is often iridescent with hues of blue, purple, and red: hence called variegated copper ore, and by miners peacock ore and horse - flesh ore, and by the French cuivre panaché. It is a sulphid of copper and iron, with a varying proportion of the latter. Also called bornite.