Conus, coni, m. g. Virg.The crest of an helmet or sallet.Acumen coni. Lucret. Decus coni. Sil. Picto cono nutantia capitum tegmina.Ouid.Angustus conus Lucret. Gloria ardua coni. Stat. Conus. Galenus. A pine apple or any thing of like figure, brode beneath and sharpe towarde the toppe.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
cōnus, i, m., = kw=nos, a cone.I. In gen., Lucr. 4, 430 and 432; Cic. N. D. 1, 10, 24; 2, 18, 47 al.—II. Esp., of conical bodies, A.The apex of a helmet, Verg. A. 3, 468; Ov. M. 3, 108; Plin. 10, 1, 1, 2; cf. Isid. Orig. 18, 14, 2.—B.The cone of the cypress, Col. 6, 7, 2.—C.A kind of sundial, Vitr. 9, 8, 1.
