has been defined the faculty of doing or suffering any thing. Power, therefore, is two-fold, viz. considered as able to make, or able to receive, any change; the former whereof may be called active, and the latter passive, power: but this distinction is improper. See Metaphysics, No 116.

in Mechanico, denotes any force, whether of a man, a horse, a spring, the wind, water, &c. which, being applied to a machine, tends to produce motion.

in Law, signifies in general a particular authority granted by any person to another to represent him, or to act in his stead.