Glans, glandis: vel glandis, huius glandis, fœ. g. Plin. Maste of oke or other trees: sometime the fruite of any tree.Glans caduca. Paulus. Mast fallen from the tree.Cerrea. Colum. Fagea. Plin. Beech maste.Hyberna.Virg.Iligna glande nutritus aper. Horat. A bore fed with holme berries.Glans quernea. Colum. Acornes: oke mast. Glans.Salust.A plummet or pellet of lead or other mettall.Plumbea glans. Lucret. A pellet of leade. Glans.Also a kernel growing betweene the skinne and the fleshe: the nutte of a mans yard: a supposttorle.Glans Iouis.A cheasten.Glans voguentaria.The fruite of a tree muche like Mirice out of the kernell whereof comineth an humour vsed in pretious ointments.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
glans, glandis, f. [kindr. with ba/lanos], an acorn, and, in gen., any acorn-shaped fruit, beechnut, chestnut, etc. I.Lit.: bubus glandem prandio depromere, Plaut. Truc. 3, 1, 2; Cato, R. R. 54; 60; Col. 6, 3; Plin. 16, 5, 6, 15 sq.; Lucr. 5, 1416; Cic. Or. 9, 31; Verg. G. 1, 148; Ov. M. 1, 106 et saep.: glandis appellatione omnis fructus continetur, ut Javolenus ait, Dig. 50, 16, 236.—II.Transf.A.An acorn-shaped ball of lead or clay which was hurled at the enemy, Lucr. 6, 179; 307; Caes. B. G. 5, 43, 1; 7, 81, 4; Sall. J. 57, 4; Liv. 38, 20, 1; ib. 21, 7; ib. 29, 6; Verg. A. 7, 686; Ov. M. 14, 826 al.—A leaden ball of this kind was found with the inscription ROMA FERI (i. e. O dea Roma, feri hostem!), Inscr. Orell. 4932.—B.The glans penis, Cels. 7, 25; cf. Mart. 12, 75, 3.