Most of the ordinaries have their diminutives, as the bendlet, the pallet, the cheveronel, &c. These are usually bounded by straight lines; but the ordinaries themselves admit of a variety of modifications of outline, as follows: 1. _Indented_, like the teeth of a saw. According to Upton, this line represents the teeth of wild beasts, but Dallaway derives it from a moulding much employed in Saxon architecture. 2. _Crenelle_, or embattled, like the top of a castle, (Lat. _crena_, a notch.) The 'licentia crenellare' of the middle ages was the sovereign's permission to his nobles to embattle or fortify their mansions. 3. _Nebuly_ (nebulosus,) from its resemblance to clouds. 4. _Wavy_, or undulated. 5. _Dancette_, like indented, but larger, and consisting of only three pieces. 6. _Engrailed_, a number of little semi-circles connected in a line, the points of junction being turned outward. Johnson derives this word from the French 'grêle,' hail, marked or indented as with hailstones. And 7. _Invecked_, the same as the last, but reversed. ROUNDLES are charges, as their name implies, of a circular form. The first idea of bearing them as charges in heraldry may have been suggested by the studs or knobs by which the parts of an actual buckler were strengthened and held together. As soon as blazon was introduced they received distinctive names, according to their tinctures. The bezant (or) was supposed to represent a gold coin, in value about a ducat, struck at Constantinople (Byzantium) in the times of the Crusades. Leigh, however, assigns it a much greater value, and calls it a talent weighing 104 lbs. troy, and worth 3750_l._ "Of these beisaunts you shall rede dyversly in Scripture, as when Salomon had geuen unto Hiram xx cities, he again gave vnto Salomon 120 _beisaunts_ of gold, whereof these toke their first name," ('obeisance?') The _plate_ (argent) was probably some kind of silver coin. The _torteaux_ (red) called in the Boke of S. A. "tortellys, or litill cakys," are said to be emblematical of plenty, and to represent a cake of bread. The modern French 'torteau' is applied more exclusively to a kind of oil-cake of an oblong form used as food for cattle. 'Tortilla,' in Spanish, is a cake compounded of flour and lard. Dame J. Berners says it should be called _wastel_. 'Wastel-brede' is defined in the glossary to Chaucer, as bread made of the finest flour, and derived from the French 'gasteau.' Chaucer represents his Prioresse as keeping small hounds "that she fedde With rosted flesh, and milk and _wastel brede_." _Prol. Cant. Tales._