ER'RAND, n.
1. A verbal message; a mandate or order; something to be told or done; a communication to be made to some person at a distance. The servant was sent on an errand; he told his errand; he has done the errand. These are the most common modes of using this word.
I have a secret errand to thee, O King. Judg 3.
2. Any special business to be transacted by a messenger.
