See Also: demy(dictionary)
DEMY SANKE or SANGUE(law)

demy (iou)



demy adjective & noun. Also (now rare or obsolete) demi. LME.
[from DEMI- or its source, French demi.]
A. adjective.
Half, half-sized, diminutive. Now rare or obsolete. LME.
Designating, of, or pertaining to any of various sizes of paper, now spec. that measuring 564 444 mm (approx. 22.2 17.5 inches) or (Austral.) 216 138 mm (approx. 8.5 5.4 inches). M16.
b. noun.
A Scottish coin of varying value, orig. a half-mark. LME-L16.
A foundation scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford (orig. having an allowance half that of a Fellow). L15.
Demy paper. E18.
demyship noun a scholarship at Magdalen College, Oxford M16.