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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Errand \Er"rand\, n. [OE. erende erande message, business, AS
[ae]rende, [ae]rend; akin to OS arundi, OHG. arunti Icel.
eyrendi ["o]rendi, erendi Sw ["a]rende, Dan. [ae]rende;
perh. akin to AS earu swift, Icel. ["o]rr, and to L. oriri
to rise, E. orient.]
A special business intrusted to a messenger; something to be
told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often a
verbal message; a commission; as the servant was sent on an
errand; to do an errand. Also one's purpose in going
anywhere.
I have a secret errand to thee, O king. --Judg. iii.
19.
I will not eat till I have told mine errand. --Gen.
xxiv. 33.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
errand
n : a short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary
task or mission
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