umpire

t. & i. [UMPIRE, s.] A. Transitive : *1. To decide as umpire; to settle, to arbitrate. ( South : Sermons , vol. vi., ser. 2.) 2. To act as umpire in or for. "The various competitions were umpired from the bows of a launch."- Field , Aug. 13, 1887. B. In trans.: To act or stand as umpire. ŭm'-pire-ship, *um-pier-ship, subst . [English umpire, s; -ship .] 1. The office of an umpire. 2. Arbitration, decision. 4250 retract what has been said, unpredict=to retract or revoke a prediction, to unlearn to forget what has been learnt, . 5. Some words with un- prefixed are hardly used unle qualified by not ; as, though we should not speak of an unstriking view, we should not hesitate to say the view was not unstriking . an ambi 6. In the case of past participles there is an guity in the prefix un-, which may be either un- (1) or un- (2), as in unrolled, which may mean either not rolled, or unfolded after having been rolled up. The meanings of most of the past participles, adjectives, adverbs, ., having un- prefixed are so obvious that a large number of them are here omitted.