Umbrosity to Un-
Umbrosity
(Um*bros"i*ty) n. The quality or state of being umbrose; shadiness. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Umhofo
(Um*ho"fo) n. (Zoöl.) An African two-horned rhinoceros (Atelodus, or Rhinoceros, simus); —
called also chukuru, and white rhinoceros.
Umlaut
(||Um"laut) n. [G., from um about + laut sound.] (Philol.) The euphonic modification of a root
vowel sound by the influence of a, u, or especially i, in the syllable which formerly followed.
It is peculiar to the Teutonic languages, and was common in Anglo-Saxon. In German the umlauted
vowels resulting from a, o, u, followed by old i, are written ä, ö, ü, or ae, oe, ue; as, männer or maenner,
men, from mann, man. Examples of forms resulting from umlaut in English are geese pl. of goose,
men pl. of man, etc.
Umlauted
(Um"laut*ed), a. (Philol.) Having the umlaut; as, umlauted vowels.
There is so natural connection between umlauted forms and plurality.
Earle. Umpirage
(Um"pi*rage) n. [From Umpire.]
1. The office of an umpire; the power, right, or authority of an umpire to decide.
The mind umpirage of the federal Union.
E. Everett. 2. The act of umpiring; arbitrament. Bp. Hall.
Umpire
(Um"pire) n. [OE. nompere, nounpere fr. OF. nomper uneven, F. non-pair; hence the meaning,
uneven, i. e., third person; non not + OF. per even, equal, peer, F. pair; cf. L. impar uneven, unequal.
See Non-, and Peer, n.]
1. A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred; especially, one
chosen to see that the rules of a game, as cricket, baseball, or the like, are strictly observed.
A man, in questions of this kind, is able to be a skillful umpire between himself and others.
Barrow. 2. (Law) A third person, who is to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators in case of
their disagreement. Blackstone.
Syn. — Judge; arbitrator; referee. See Judge.
Umpire
(Um"pire), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Umpired ; p. pr. & vb. n. Umpiring.]
1. To decide as umpire; to arbitrate; to settle, as a dispute.
Judges appointed to umpire the matter in contest between them, and to decide where the right lies.
South. 2. To perform the duties of umpire in or for; as, to umpire a game. [Colloq.]
Umpire
(Um"pire), v. i. To act as umpire or arbitrator.
Umpireship
(Um"pire*ship), n. Umpirage; arbitrament. Jewel.
Umpress
(Um"press) n. Female umpire. [R.] Marston.
Umquhile
(Um"quhile) adv. [Cf. OF. umwhile for a time. See While.] Some time ago; formerly. [Scot.]
Sir W. Scott. — a. Former. [Scot.]
