Kex (?), n. [W. cecys, pl., hollow stalks.]
1. Bot.
A weed; a kecksy.
Bp. Gauden.
Though the rough kex break
The starred mosaic.
Tennyson.
2.
A dry husk or covering.
When the kex, or husk, is broken, he proveth a fair flying butterfly.
Holland.
© Webster 1913.