Feme \Feme\ (? or ?), n. [OF. feme, F. femme.]

(Old Law) 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, who, by the custom of London, engages in business on her own account, inpendently of her husband.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)