demy

Etymology

 * From ; see.

Noun

 * 1) A printing paper size, 17½ inches by 22½ inches.
 * 2)  One holding a demyship, a kind of scholarship for.
 * 3) * 1781, Samuel Johnson, Addison, Lives of the Poets, 1840, Arthur Murphy (editor), The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Volume 2, page 132,
 * by whose recommendations 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) Junior scholar, specifically at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Noun

 * 1) half (50% of something)