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Jade   /dʒeɪd/   Listen
noun
Jade  n.  
1.
(Min.) A stone, commonly of a pale to dark green color but sometimes whitish. It is very hard and compact, capable of fine polish, and is used for ornamental purposes and for implements, esp. in Eastern countries and among many early peoples. Note: The general term jade includes nephrite, a compact variety of tremolite with a specific gravity of 3, and also the mineral jadeite, a silicate of alumina and soda, with a specific gravity of 3.3. The latter is the more highly prized and includes the feitsui of the Chinese. The name has also been given to other tough green minerals capable of similar use.
2.
A color resembling that of jade (1); it varies from yellowish-green to bluish-green.


Jade  n.  
1.
A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag. "Tired as a jade in overloaden cart."
2.
A disreputable or vicious woman; a wench; a quean; also, sometimes, a worthless man. "She shines the first of battered jades."
3.
A young woman; generally so called in irony or slight contempt. "A souple jade she was, and strang."


verb
Jade  v. t.  (past & past part. jaded; pres. part. jading)  
1.
To treat like a jade; to spurn. (Obs.)
2.
To make ridiculous and contemptible. (Obs.) "I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me."
3.
To exhaust by overdriving or long-continued labor of any kind; to tire, make dull, or wear out by severe or tedious tasks; to harass. "The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power,... checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after."
Synonyms: To fatigue; tire; weary; harass. To Jade, Fatigue, Tire, Weary. Fatigue is the generic term; tire denotes fatigue which wastes the strength; weary implies that a person is worn out by exertion; jade refers to the weariness created by a long and steady repetition of the same act or effort. A little exertion will tire a child or a weak person; a severe or protracted task wearies equally the body and the mind; the most powerful horse becomes jaded on a long journey by a continual straining of the same muscles. Wearied with labor of body or mind; tired of work, tired out by importunities; jaded by incessant attention to business.


Jade  v. i.  To become weary; to lose spirit. "They... fail, and jade, and tire in the prosecution."





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"Jade" Quotes from Famous Books



... carrying his despatch case, came limping along the platform in company with the grey-bearded Commander in charge of the base. The King's Messenger climbed into his carriage and the journey was resumed. Along the shores of jade-tinted lochs, through far-stretching deer forest and grouse moor, past brawling rivers of "snow-brew," and along the flanks of shale-strewn hills, the "Navy Special" bore ...
— The Long Trick • Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie
... Richard meet but Storri. The Russ was on the brink of departure. At that meeting Richard's face clouded. Dorothy was alone with Storri; her mother had been called temporarily from the room. At sight of Dorothy's flower-like hand in Storri's hairy paw, Richard's eyes turned jade. ...
— The President - A novel • Alfred Henry Lewis
... miller, "unfortunately watchmen always tell the truth, and the lady on your arm is a proof of it. Ha! young jade, do you know me? do you know who I am? Is it right for a betrothed bride to be gadding at night about the streets with other men? To-morrow your mother shall hear of this. I'll have nothing more ...
— Stories by Foreign Authors: German • Various
... to J.B.; only three pages copy, so must work hard for a day or two. I wish I could wind up my bottom handsomely—an odd but accredited phrase. The conclusion will be luminous; we must try to make it dashing. Go spin, you jade, go spin. Have a good deal to do between-hands in sorting up the newly arrived accession ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott
... contemptuously at his companion. "I would think no more of riddling the old jade's hide than I would of throwing off this tumbler;" and, to suit the action to the word, he drained off ...
— Stories by English Authors: Ireland • Various


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