Umpire

um'pir, n. A 3d person, to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is ferred. {Law.) A 3d person, who is to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators, case of their disagreement. Judge; arbitrator; referee. — Um'pireship, n. Office or authority of umpire. — Um'pirage, -pT-rej, n. Power, right, authority to decide; decision of an umpire; arbitrament. Un-, un-, inseparable prefix, (1) a negative prefix, used with nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and past participles; (2) a verbal prefix,— the two being of distinct derivation and uses. (1) Uxmay be prefixed to most any adjective or adverb, to form a meaning the negative of that of the simple word, as, unclean, not clean, unwisely, not wisely: such compounds are usually self-explanatory, and those only are inserted in this vocabulary which have acquired a sense different from that of the simple word; which have the value of independent words, because the simple word is obsolete or rarely used, as uncouth; or which are in so frequent use that they are hardly felt to of negative origin, as uncertain", uneven, etc.— (2) Ux-, verbal prefix, expre es the reversal of the action dicated by the simple word, as, unlock, to open that which has been closed by locking. — In the case past participles, 2 words of like spellings, but different signification, are often formed by use of the prefixes, as, undone (fir. undo), unfastened, ruined, undone (fr. un & done), not done, unfinished.