Citations:vexil

Uncertain sense 1: same as vexillum?

 * 1870, A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall
 * A hand in front held up a cross, with a vexil attached to it.

Uncertain sense 2

 * 1988, Derrick de Kerckhove, Charles Lumsden, The Alphabet and the Brain: The Lateralization of Writing (page 132)
 * Length is measured in vexils, where for any alphabet in any given font the vexil is the altitude of the letter-space.