(n.) The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte.
Example Sentences:
(1) A record was taken 1973 of 22,466 single and 3,287 multiple live births, with premature deliveries being subdivided by age, birth order, coverture, and vocational backgrounds of the mothers concerned.
(2) Are we required to recognize coverture and polygamous marriages because these were once embedded in the definition of marriage?
Woodbine
Definition:
(v. t.) A climbing plant having flowers of great fragrance (Lonicera Periclymenum); the honeysuckle.
(v. t.) The Virginia creeper. See Virginia creeper, under Virginia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jamaica meanwhile try a couple of long balls over the top (their predicted tactic pre-game) before Woodbine tries a shot from distance that trundles weakly out for a goal kick.
(2) None of the other kids wanted to be in them; I had to bribe them with cheap Woodbine cigarettes.
(3) 2.26am BST Team News Jamaica: Donovan Ricketts; O'Brian Woodbine, Adrian Mariappa, Daniel Gordon, Alvas Powell; Marvin Elliot, Rodolph Austin; Garath McCleary, Jermaine Hue, Jermaine Johnson; Ryan Johnson United States: Tim Howard; Brad Evans, Omar Gonzalez, Matt Besler, DaMarcus Beasley; Jermaine Jones, Michael Bradley; Graham Zusi, Clint Dempsey, Fabian Johnson; Jozy Altidore Jamaica need to go for it - no team has qualified from the Hex with 2 points after 4 games before, and their comeback needs to start now.
(4) Jamaica retrieve and try to get Woodbine sprinting forward down the left wing.
(5) 26 Broadgate, 01522 528583 Rosie Kelly The Woodbine, Finsbury Park, London Our favorite local in Finsbury Park is near where Blackstock Road runs into Highbury.
(6) Woodbine tries to go round the outside of Evans, whose touch concedes a corner... 2.55am BST 18 mins Jermaine Johnson is looking lively early on and he's charging at the US backline again, though perhaps he could have made a better decision with his final ball and the US get it clear.
(7) Now a decent Jamaican passing sequence down the left ends in a loose ball from Woodbine as McCleary looks to race clear on the overlap.
(8) It's cleared, but now Jamaica have a long throw from Woodbine that almost gives Ryan Johnson a clear chance.