(a) moving, advancing; (b) erring; (c) fleeting, transitory.

Esp. of an opinion: erroneous, unsound; not in accordance with established doctrine; heterodox, heretical. Obsolete.

Subject to or characterized by aberration; abnormal, deviant, nonstandard; deviating or diverging from (formerly also †fro) a recognized course…

That has gone astray, literal and figurative.

That strays, in the senses of the verb. figurative.

Forsaking, or apt to forsake, the right path; erring, faulty, transgressing, trespassing. Obsolete.

Straying from the path of right or virtue, morally faulty, criminal. Obsolete or archaic.

Of persons, etc.: Deviating from the proper or determined course; figurative erring, disloyal. Obsolete.

figurative. Deviating or swerving from the straight way; erring, straying.

In figurative and allusive expressions: cf. traces. out of theats (also out of theet), out of bounds: see quot. 1710, and cf. ‘to kick over the…