Demy /(?)/

pl. Demies

1. A printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. See under Paper.
2. A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford.

   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.

1. Pertaining to, or made of, the size of paper called demy; as, a demy book.