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(Lat.), n. m. E2r'ro2r(ror). Gen., erro'ris. Gr., oirorv\ia. Fr., erreur. Ger., Verirrung. A failure, a mischance, a going astray. [A, 325 (a, 21).] E. loci. Fr., erreur de lieu. Ger., Ortsverirrung. Lit., an e. of place. 1. Of Boerhaave, a supposed aberration of the large i blood-corpuscles by which they were forced into and became impacted in ve els (e. g., lymph-canals) of too small a calibre to admit of their pa age. [L, 84.] 2. See ECTOPIA. E. of dispersion. The indistinctne produced in the outlines of an image by chromatic aberration. [B, 51 (a, 27).] [s. 747]