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JADE, n.

1. A mean or poor horse; a tired horse; a worthless nag.

Tired as a jade in overloaden cart.

2. A mean woman; a word of contempt, noting sometimes age, but generally vice.

She shines the first of battered jades.

3. A young woman; in irony or slight contempt.

JADE, n. A mineral called also nephrite or nephritic stone,remarkable for its hardness and tenacity, of a color more or less green, and of a resinous or oily aspect when polished. It is fusible into a glass or enamel. Cleveland divides jade into three subspecies, nephrite, saussurite, and axestone. It is found in detached masses or inhering in rocks.

JADE, v.t. To tire; to fatigue; to weary with hard service; as, to jade a horse.

1. To weary with attention or study; to tire.

The mind once jaded by an attempt above its power, is very hardly brought to exert its force again.

2. To harass; to crush.

3. To tire or wear out in mean offices; as a jaded groom.

4. To ride; to rule with tyranny.

I do not now fool myself, to let imagination jade me.

JADE, v.i. To become weary; to lose spirit; to sink.

They are promising in the beginning,but they fail and jade and tire in the prosecution.



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JADE, n.

1. A mean or poor horse; a tired horse; a worthless nag.

Tired as a jade in overloaden cart.

2. A mean woman; a word of contempt, noting sometimes age, but generally vice.

She shines the first of battered jades.

3. A young woman; in irony or slight contempt.

JADE, n. A mineral called also nephrite or nephritic stone,remarkable for its hardness and tenacity, of a color more or less green, and of a resinous or oily aspect when polished. It is fusible into a glass or enamel. Cleveland divides jade into three subspecies, nephrite, saussurite, and axestone. It is found in detached masses or inhering in rocks.

JADE, v.t. To tire; to fatigue; to weary with hard service; as, to jade a horse.

1. To weary with attention or study; to tire.

The mind once jaded by an attempt above its power, is very hardly brought to exert its force again.

2. To harass; to crush.

3. To tire or wear out in mean offices; as a jaded groom.

4. To ride; to rule with tyranny.

I do not now fool myself, to let imagination jade me.

JADE, v.i. To become weary; to lose spirit; to sink.

They are promising in the beginning,but they fail and jade and tire in the prosecution.

JADE, n.1 [of unknown origin. Qu. Sp. jadear, to pant.]

  1. A mean or poor horse; a tired horse; a worthless nag. Tired as a jade in overloaden cart. – Sidney.
  2. A mean woman; a word of contempt, noting sometimes age, but generally vice. – Johnson. She shines the first of battered jades. – Swift.
  3. A young woman; in irony or slight contempt. – Addison.

JADE, n.2

A mineral called also nephrite or nephritic stone, remarkable for its hardness and tenacity, of a color more or less green, and of a resinous or oily aspect when polished. It is fusible into a glass or enamel. Cleaveland divides jade into three subspecies, nephrite, saussurite, and axestone. It is found in detached masses or inhering in rocks. – Werner. Jameson. Cleaveland.


JADE, v.i.

To become weary; to lose spirit; to sink. They are promising in the beginning, but they fail and jade and tire in the prosecution. – South.


JADE, v.t.

  1. To tire; to fatigue; to weary with hard service; as, to jade a horse.
  2. To weary with attention or study; to tire. The mind once jaded by an attempt above its power, is very hardly brought to exert its force again. Locke.
  3. To harass; to crush. – Shak.
  4. To tire or wear out in mean offices; as, a jaded groom. – Shak.
  5. To ride; to rule with tyranny. I do not now fool myself, to let imagination jade me. – Shak.

Jade
  1. 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.

    * 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 mean or tired horse; a worthless nag.

    Chaucer.

    Tired as a jade in overloaden cart. Sir P. Sidney.

  3. To treat like a jade] to spurn.

    [Obs.] Shak.
  4. To become weary; to lose spirit.

    They . . . fail, and jade, and tire in the prosecution. South.

  5. A disreputable or vicious woman; a wench; a quean; also, sometimes, a worthless man.

    Shak.

    She shines the first of battered jades. Swift.

  6. To make ridiculous and contemptible.

    [Obs.]

    I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me. Shak.

  7. A young woman; -- generally so called in irony or slight contempt.

    A souple jade she was, and strang. Burns.

  8. To exhaust by overdriving or long- continued labor of any kind; to tire 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. Locke.

    Syn. -- 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.

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Jade

JADE, noun

1. A mean or poor horse; a tired horse; a worthless nag.

Tired as a jade in overloaden cart.

2. A mean woman; a word of contempt, noting sometimes age, but generally vice.

She shines the first of battered jades.

3. A young woman; in irony or slight contempt.

JADE, noun A mineral called also nephrite or nephritic stone, remarkable for its hardness and tenacity, of a color more or less green, and of a resinous or oily aspect when polished. It is fusible into a glass or enamel. Cleveland divides jade into three subspecies, nephrite, saussurite, and axestone. It is found in detached masses or inhering in rocks.

JADE, verb transitive To tire; to fatigue; to weary with hard service; as, to jade a horse.

1. To weary with attention or study; to tire.

The mind once jaded by an attempt above its power, is very hardly brought to exert its force again.

2. To harass; to crush.

3. To tire or wear out in mean offices; as a jaded groom.

4. To ride; to rule with tyranny.

I do not now fool myself, to let imagination jade me.

JADE, verb intransitive To become weary; to lose spirit; to sink.

They are promising in the beginning, but they fail and jade and tire in the prosecution.

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