DEMI-CULVERIN. See [Cannon].
DEMI-DISTANCE des polygones, Fr. is the distance between the exterior polygons and the angles.
Demi-Distances, Fr. half distances: as serrez la colonne à demi-distances, close to the column at half distances.
DEMI-FILE, Fr. is that rank in a French battalion, which immediately succeeds to the serre-demi-file, and is at the head of the remaining half of its depth.
DEMI-LANCE, a light lance or spear.
DEMI-LINE, in fortification, is a work placed before the curtain to cover it and prevent the flanks from being discovered sideways. It is made of two faces, meeting in an outward angle. See [Fortification].
DEMI-GORGE, in fortification, is half the gorge, or entrance into the bastion, not taken directly from angle to angle, where the bastion joins the curtain, but from the angle of the flank to the centre of the bastion; or the angle which the two curtains would make, by their prolongation. See [Fortification].
DEMISSION, Fr. Resignation.
DEMOLITION, the act of overthrowing buildings.
DENIZEN, a free man, residing in a country or state, and owing allegiance, as opposed to Alien, which means a person not a citizen, and who owes or acknowleges a foreign allegiance.