Someone hired to make public announcements. Someone who noted the sun's passage through noon and informed the Roman citizens that afternoon had begun. One who practices the art or science of blazoning armorial bearings and settling the right of persons to bear arms or certain bearings, in connexion with which it deals with the tracing and recording of pedigrees, and deciding of questions of precedence (OED).
"Nature soon covers the work of man in wood or stone with a carpet of moss and her own heraldry of lichens."
Century Magazine (1889).
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