Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Demy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Demy \De*my"\, n.; pl. {Demies}. [See {Demi-}.]
1. A printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. See
under {Paper}.
2. A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. [Written also
{demi}.]
He was elected into Magdalen College as a demy; a
term by which that society denominates those
elsewhere called ``scholars,'' young men who partake
of the founder's benefaction, and succeed in their
order to vacant fellowships. --Johnson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Demy \De*my"\, a.
Pertaining to, or made of, the size of paper called demy; as,
a demy book.
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