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Webster 1913 Edition

Umpire

Um′pire

,
Noun.
[OE.
nompere
,
nounpere
(also
impier
, fr. F.
impair
uneven), 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
,
Noun.
]
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
.

Um′pire

,
Verb.
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.]

Um′pire

,
Verb.
I.
To act as umpire or arbitrator.

Webster 1828 Edition

Umpire

UM'PIRE

,
Noun.
[L. imperium, contracted, as in empire.]
1.
A third person called in to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators, when the arbitrators do not agree in opinion.
2.
A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred. Thus the emperor of Russia was constituted umpire between Great Britain and the United States, to decide the controversy respecting the slaves carried from the states by the British troops.

UM'PIRE

,
Verb.
T.
To arbitrate; to decide as umpire; to settle, as a dispute. [Little used.]

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