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Kex   Listen
noun
Kex  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A weed; a kecksy. "Though the rough kex break The starred mosaic."
2.
A dry husk or covering. "When the kex, or husk, is broken, he proveth a fair flying butterfly."






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"Kex" Quotes from Famous Books



... kex, that in summer has been so liberal to fodder other men's cattle, and scarce have enough to keep your own in winter. Mine are precious cabinets, and must have precious jewels put into them, and I know you to be merchants of stock-fish, dry-meat,[405] ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX • Various



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