feme
feme is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 32 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A woman. Burrill. Feme covert (Law), a married woman. See Covert, a., 3. -- Feme sole (Law), a single or unmarried woman; a woman who has never been married, or who has been divorced, or whose husband is dead. -- Feme sole trader or merchant (Eng. Law), a married woman, by the custom of London, engages in business on her own account, inpendently of her husband.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- agamist
- alone
- bachelor
- bachelorhood
- bachelorship
- blessedness
- celibacy
- girl
- live
- maid
- maiden
- maidenhead
- maidenhood
- man
- misogamist
- misogamy
- misogynist
- misogyny
- monk
- monogamist
- nun
- old
- pucelage
- single
- singleness
- sole
- spinster
- spouseless
- virgin
- virginity
- wifeless
- woman
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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