in Fortification, is that part of the polygon which remains after the flank is raised, and which stretches from the curtain to the angle of the polygon. It is half of the vacant space or entrance into a bastion.

DEMI-Quaver, a note in music, two of which are equal to a quaver.

DEMI-Semiquaver, in music, the shortest note, two of them being equal to a semiquaver.

DEMISE, in Law, is applied to an estate either in fee simple, fee tail, or for a term of life or years; and so it is commonly taken in many writs. The king's death is in law termed the demise of the king.

Demise and Redemeise, denote a conveyance where there are mutual leases made from one to another of the same land, or something out of it.

DEMURGE (from δημογένεια, which denotes a public servant, and εργος, work), in the mythology of the eastern philosophers, was one of the Eons employed by the supreme Deity in the creation of the world. He is represented as claiming dominion over the new world he had formed, and totally excluding the supreme Deity from all concern in it.