noun. A person who carries or proclaims important news; a messenger.

noun. One that gives a sign or indication of something to come; a harbinger.

noun. An official whose specialty is heraldry.

noun. undefined

noun. An official formerly charged with making royal proclamations and bearing messages of state between sovereigns.

noun. An official who formerly made proclamations and conveyed challenges at a tournament.

transitive verb. To proclaim, especially with enthusiasm; announce or acclaim.

transitive verb. To be a sign of; foreshadow.

noun. An officer sent by a sovereign, a general, or other person of high authority to another, or to an army or public assembly, with a formal message or proclamation, or employed in related duties.

noun. In extended modern use, any official messenger, especially one charged with a message of defiance, a proposition of peace, or the like.

noun. A proclaimer; a publisher; a crier; an announcer of important tidings.

noun. A forerunner; a precursor; a harbinger: sometimes used poetically in apposition or attributively.

noun. The red-breasted merganser, Mergus serrator, more fully called herald-duck. See earl-duck, harle.

noun. A noctuid moth, Gonoptera libatrix: an English collectors’ name. See Gonoptera.

To proclaim; give tidings of as a herald; announce.

noun. An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character.

noun. In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See Heralds' College (below), and King-at-Arms.

noun. A proclaimer; one who, or that which, publishes or announces.

noun. A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger.

noun. Any messenger.

noun. in England, an ancient corporation, dependent upon the crown, instituted or perhaps recognized by Richard III. in 1483, consisting of the three Kings-at-Arms and the Chester, Lancaster, Richmond, Somerset, Windsor, and York Heralds, together with the Earl Marshal. This retains from the Middle Ages the charge of the armorial bearings of persons privileged to bear them, as well as of genealogies and kindred subjects; -- called also College of Arms.

transitive verb. To introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in.

noun. A messenger, especially one bringing important news.

noun. A harbinger, giving signs of things to come.

noun. An official whose specialty is heraldry, especially one between the ranks of pursuivant and king of arms.

noun. A moth (Scoliopteryx libatrix)

verb. To proclaim, announce, etc. an event.

verb. greet enthusiastically or joyfully

verb. foreshadow or presage

verb. praise vociferously

noun. (formal) a person who announces important news

noun. something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone

"Bozo The Neoclown says: hey pattycakes, you do realize the boston herald is owned by the dreaded new york times. right, shitstain?"

herald-at-arms  herald’ college  

heraldic  heraldry  

heralded  heralding  

applaud  courier  greet  indicant  indication  

Fitzgerald  Gerald  Harold  Jerald  Jerrold  

Clarenceux  College of Arms  Gabriel  Garter  Lyon  

king-at-arms  

heralded  heraldic  heraldically  heralding  heralds