Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete and corrupt form of umpire.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete See umpire.

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  • noun Obsolete form of umpire..

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Examples

  • To be honest, I'd rather be holding the coat-tails of one of our seedlings than absorbed into the EU 'impire'.

    Lib Dumb Serf 2006

  • The Soviet Union became an evil, tyrannical impire after the Russian people revolted to overthrow the Czar.

    G20 Pbgh; Police State Ghost-Town; Pics and Video of Tear-gassing 2009

  • They are involved in matter now, but in matter they are creating a new impire for the spirit.

    Introduction 1922

  • Be hivins, if Ireland cud be freed be a picnic, it 'd not on'y be free to-day, but an impire, begorra, with Tim Haley, th' Banthry man, evictin 'Lord Salisbury fr'm his houldin'.

    Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • No flinchin ', no hisitation, ivry man with his head erect an' th 'feelin' in his heart that on him rested th 'security iv th' impire if so.

    Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • He cud holler like th 'impire iv a base-ball game; an', whin he delivered th 'sintimints iv his hear-rt, ye'd think he was thryin' to confide thim to a man on top iv a high buildin '.

    Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • I sleep constantly in clothes becomin 'me station, an' th 'impire may rely on me not makin' a show iv mesilf whin I am took.

    Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • An ', if anny wan laid hands on th' ball, he was kicked be ivry wan else an 'be th' impire.

    Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • 'Twas the kit that flusthered me, for I knew for a Capt'n to go trapesing about the impire wid the Lord knew what av a _truso_ on his arrum was nefarious, an 'wud be worse than easin' the flag, so far as the talk aftherwards wint. '

    Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Twas the kit that flusthered me, for I knew for a Capt'n to go trapesing about the impire wid the Lord knew what av a

    Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

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