The Collaborative International Dictionary
Demies
Demy \De*my"\, n.; pl. Demies. [See Demi-.]
A printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. See under Paper.
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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.
Wiktionary
demies
n. (demy English)