Demy

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A printing and a writing paper of particular sizes. See under Paper.

2. 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.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

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