- A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites
or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or
summoner. - An officer in a university, who precedes public processions
of officers and students. - An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of
duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the
chastisement of petty offenders, etc.
- Coat of arms - Coat-of-arms study - The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or
science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns
armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public
ceremonies.