Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Feme

Feme (fem or fam) , noun

[Old French feme, French femme.]

(Old Law) A woman. — Burrill
Collocations (3)
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 Feme sole merchant (Eng. Law) , a married woman, who, by the custom of London, engages in business on her own account, inpendently of her husband.