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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



... tower withal, which we, in our turn, have endeavoured to turn to the illustration of our pages. There is no sinister motive in the selection; but if we have hit the white, or rather the black, of such variableness, "let the galled jade wince," and pay the Mirror the stale compliment ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 17, No. - 482, March 26, 1831 • Various
... into my back to seize me by my clothes, when some one called out from the bottom of the staircase, "What are you doing above there? We don't kill women." I was on my knees; my executioner quitted his hold of me, and said, "Get up, you jade; the nation pardons you." ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... ingenue who had been suddenly sent on in the role of the Russian adventuress. Her slight girl's figure was draped in black lace. Her face was shaded by a large picture hat, heavy with drooping ostrich feathers; around her shoulders was a necklace of jade, and on her wrists many bracelets of silver gilt. When she moved they rattled. As the girl advanced, smiling, to greet Mr. Hallowell, she suddenly stopped, shivered slightly, and threw her right arm across her eyes. Her left arm she stretched ...
— Vera - The Medium • Richard Harding Davis
... a pestle and mortar of jade, and you can only get one like it by going to the home of the Genii, which is on a mountain above the Lake of Gems. If you will do that, and bring it back to me, you shall ...
— Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know • Various
... the smell of half-decayed fruits and flowers thickening the languid air. What visions he could build, if he dared, of being tucked away with Susy in the attic of some tumble-down palace, above a jade-green waterway, with a terrace overhanging a scrap of neglected garden—and cheques from the publishers dropping in at convenient intervals! Why should they not settle in Venice if ...
— The Glimpses of the Moon • Edith Wharton


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