Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.