- Demies
- Demy De*my", n.; pl. {Demies}. [See {Demi-}.]
1. A printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. See
under {Paper}.
[1913 Webster]
2. A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. [Written also {demi}.] [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
