Definition of Coheiresses

1. coheiress [n] - See also: coheiress

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coheiresses

cohabiting
cohabitor
cohabitors
cohabits
cohabs
cohanim
cohaversine
cohaversines
cohb level
cohead
coheaded
coheading
coheads
coheir
coheiress
coheiresses (current term)
coheirs
coheirship
cohenite
coherald
coheralds
cohere
cohered
coherence
coherences
coherencies
coherency
coherent
coherent-light
coherent light

Literary usage of Coheiresses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Metropolitan (1844)
"THE coheiresses. BY Mils. EDWARD THOMAS. Oh ! weighs the chain lesi heavy because wrought Of gold of ..."

2. Baronia Anglica Concentrata, Or, A Concentrated Account of All the Baronies by Thomas Christopher Banks (1844)
"... daughter of Nicholas Park, (mother, by a former husband, of the celebrated Sir John Falstaff,) and by her had three daughters his coheiresses, ..."

3. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of by William Johnson, Lorenzo B. Shepard, New York (State). Supreme Court, New York (State). Court for the Trial of Impeachments and the Correction of Errors (1849)
"The coheiresses and their husbands have been, from their birth, and still are, British subjects, and not American citizens. There were, at the commencement ..."

4. Magna Britannia;: Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several by Daniel Lysons, Samuel Lysons (1816)
"The coheiresses married Hudleston, Penington, and Senhouse. CORBY of Corby. ... Extinct early in the fourteenth century. The coheiresses married Caddy, ..."

5. Transactions by East Riding Antiquarian Society, American Society of Heating, Institution of Gas Engineers, Air Conditioning Engineers (1903)
"Mrs. Grimes: Mary, 2nd of the four daughters and coheiresses of Nathaniel Cholmley, before mentioned, born 24th March, 1755, married in 1774 Abraham Grimes, ..."

6. Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Lord Chancellor and the Court by John Peter De Gex, Henry Cadman Jones, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1873)
"THIS was a petition presented by the administratrix of a lunatic who had died intestate and by his coheiresses and their husbands. ..."

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