"Power" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

In real property law. A

Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty
of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance;
capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency;
might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction;
money gives power.

The exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the
exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion; sway; command;
government.

Applied force; force producing motion or pressure; as, the
power applied at one and of a lever to lift a weight at the other end.

Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted; strength, force,
or energy in action; as, the power of steam in moving an engine; the
power of truth, or of argument, in producing conviction; the power of
enthusiasm.

The agent exercising an ability to act; an individual
invested with authority; an institution, or government, which exercises
control; as, the great powers of Europe; hence, often, a superhuman
agent; a spirit; a divinity.

A military or naval force; an army or navy; a great host.

A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy
is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, etc.

The rate at which mechanical energy is exerted or mechanical
work performed, as by an engine or other machine, or an animal, working
continuously; as, an engine of twenty horse power.

Same as Poor, the fish.

The degree to which a lens, mirror, or any optical
instrument, magnifies; in the telescope, and usually in the microscope,
the number of times it multiplies, or augments, the apparent diameter
of an object; sometimes, in microscopes, the number of times it
multiplies the apparent surface.

An authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest
vested either in himself or in another person; ownership by
appointment.

A large quantity; a great number; as, a power o/ good
things.

Hence, vested authority to act in a given case; as, the
business was referred to a committee with power.

Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted
upon; susceptibility; -- called also passive power; as, great power of
endurance.

The product arising from the multiplication of a number into
itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of
a number.

Mental or moral ability to act; one of the faculties which
are possessed by the mind or soul; as, the power of thinking,
reasoning, judging, willing, fearing, hoping, etc.

A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to
drive other machinery; as, a dog power.