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."
... through the Spanish dominions, issued secret orders that the frontiers should be watched, and offered a reward of one thousand florins to any one who should bring him, dead or alive. He was described as "homme de moienne stature, ayant barbe a demy blanche, et le visage hault et large." Letters of the Duchess of Parma, June 11th and 25th, 1563, apud Charles Paillard, Histoire des troubles religieux de Valenciennes (Paris and Brussels, 1875, ... — History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird
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