demy n.
a type of crooked dice.
Detection of Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play 28: Light graviers there be, demies, contraries, and of all sorts, forged clean against the apparent vantage, which have special and sundry uses. | ||
Notable Discovery of Coosnage in Grosart (1881–3) X 37: Pardon me Gentlemen for although no man could better then myself discouer this lawe and his tearmes, and the name of their Cheats, Barddice, Flats, Forgers, Langrets, Gourds, Demies, and many other, with their nature, & the crosses and contraries to them vpon aduantage, yet for some speciall reasons, herein I will be silent. | ||
Belman of London E3: The Names of false Dyce [...] A Bale of Demies. | ||
[Rowlands] The art of iugling or legerdemaine n.p.: What should I speak any more of false dice, of fullons, high-men, lowe-men, gourds, and brisled dice, grauiers, demies, and contraries, all which haue his sundry vses. | ||
Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
‘Modern Dict.’ in Sporting Mag. May XVIII . | ||
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |