Vocabulary : Umpirage to Unability

Umpirage : The office of an umpire; the power, right, or authority of an umpire to decide. ;; The act of umpiring; arbitrament.
Umpire : 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 third person, who is to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators in case of their disagreement. ;; To decide as umpire; to arbitrate; to settle, as a dispute. ;; To perform the duties of umpire in or for; as, to umpire a game. ;; To act as umpire or arbitrator.
Umpired : of Umpire
Umpireship : Umpirage; arbitrament.
Umpiring : of Umpire

Umpress : Female umpire.
Umquhile : Some time ago; formerly. ;; Former.
Un- : An inseparable verbal prefix or particle. It is prefixed: (a) To verbs to express the contrary, and not the simple negative, of the action of the verb to which it is prefixed; as in uncoil, undo, unfold. (b) To nouns to form verbs expressing privation of the thing, quality, or state expressed by the noun, or separation from it; as in unchild, unsex. Sometimes particles and participial adjectives formed with this prefix coincide in form with compounds of the negative prefix un- (see 2d Un-); as in undone (from undo), meaning unfastened, ruined; and undone (from 2d un- and done) meaning not done, not finished. Un- is sometimes used with an intensive force merely; as in unloose. ;; An inseparable prefix, or particle, signifying not; in-; non-. In- is prefixed mostly to words of Latin origin, or else to words formed by Latin suffixes; un- is of much wider application, and is attached at will to almost any adjective, or participle used adjectively, or adverb, from which it may be desired to form a corresponding ne
Una boat : The English name for a catboat; -- so called because Una was the name of the first boat of this kind taken to England.
Unability : Inability.

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