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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



... Persian rugs and carpets. Large oil-paintings of Queen Victoria, the Czar of Russia, and other sovereigns, surround the walls, including two portraits of her Majesty the Ex-Empress Eugenie. It would weary the reader to wade through a description of the Jade work and cloisonne, the porcelain of all countries, the Japanese works of art in bronze and gold, and last, but not least, the cut and uncut diamonds and precious stones, temptingly laid out in open saucers, like bonbons in a confectioner's ...
— A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan • Harry De Windt
... the wagerers against him crowed and groaned in chorus at the maid's narrative of how the moment Countess Fanny had thrown up the window of her carriage, she sprang out to a carriage on the off side, containing Kirby, and how she, this little French jade, sprang in to take her place. One snap of the fingers and the transformation was accomplished. So for another kiss all round they let her go free, and she sat at the supper-table prepared for Countess Fanny ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... cumbersom baggage of their journeys, insomuch that it frequently happened, that the Shoulders and Backs of the Indians were deeply marked with their scourges and stripes, just as they used to serve a tired Jade, accustomed to burthens. And as to those slashes with whips, blows with staves, cuffs and boxes, maledictions and curses, with a Thousand of such kind of Torments they suffered during the fatigue of their laborious journeys it would ...
— A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies • Bartolome de las Casas
... that," breaks in Warrie. "You forget the roses and the yellow jasmine climbing over the shacks, the Spanish moss festooning the oaks, the mocking-birds singing from every tree-top, the black cypress behind the pines, and out front the jade-green Gulf where the sun goes down so glorious. You forget the brilliant mornings and ...
— Wilt Thou Torchy • Sewell Ford
... much like her—but, being a man, scarcely as innocent of intention, I've said as much to her, and left her pouting—the silly little jade." ...
— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers


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