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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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1: of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green [syn: jade, jade- green] n
1: a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite [syn: jade, jadestone]
2: a woman adulterer [syn: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop]
3: a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green [syn: jade green, jade]
4: an old or over-worked horse [syn: hack, jade, nag, plug] v
1: lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food" [syn: tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade]
2: exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" [syn: tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue] [ant: freshen, refresh, refreshen]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English Date: 14th century 1. a broken-down, vicious, or worthless horse 2. a. a disreputable woman b. a flirtatious girl II. verb (jaded; jading) Date: 1524 transitive verb 1. a. to wear out by overwork or abuse b. to tire or dull through repetition or excess 2. obsolete to make ridiculous intransitive verb to become weary or dulled Synonyms: see tire III. noun Etymology: French, from obsolete Spanish (piedra de la) ijada, literally, loin stone, ultimately from Latin ilia, plural, flanks; from the belief that jade cures renal colic Date: circa 1741 1. either of two tough compact typically green gemstones that take a high polish: a. jadeite b. nephrite 2. a sculpture or artifact of jade 3. jade green

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. 1 a hard usu. green stone composed of silicates of calcium and magnesium, or of sodium and aluminium, used for ornaments and implements. 2 the green colour of jade. Etymology: F: le jade for l'ejade f. Sp. piedra de ijada stone of the flank, i.e. stone for colic (which it was believed to cure) 2. n. 1 an inferior or worn-out horse. 2 derog. a disreputable woman. Etymology: ME: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Jade Jade, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Jading.] 1. To treat like a jade; to spurn. [Obs.] --Shak. 2. To make ridiculous and contemptible. [Obs.] I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me. --Shak. 3. 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. Usage: 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Jade Jade, n. [F., fr. Sp. jade, fr. piedra de ijada stone of the side, fr. ijada flank, side, pain in the side, the stone being so named because it was supposed to cure this pain. Sp. ijada is derived fr. L. ilia flanks. Cf. Iliac.] (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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Jade Jade, n. [OE. jade; cf. Prov. E. yaud, Scot. yade, yad, yaud, Icel. jalda a mare.] 1. A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag. --Chaucer. Tired as a jade in overloaden cart. --Sir P. Sidney. 2. A disreputable or vicious woman; a wench; a quean; also, sometimes, a worthless man. --Shak. She shines the first of battered jades. --Swift. 3. A young woman; -- generally so called in irony or slight contempt. A souple jade she was, and strang. --Burns.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Jade is a hard stone, usually green in colour, that is used for making jewellery and ornaments.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. 1. Hack, tired horse, worthless horse. 2. Hussy, quean, base woman, sorry wench. 3. Young woman (in irony or slight contempt). 4. Jade-stone, tremolite, nephritic stone, nephrite. II. v. a. Tire, weary, fatigue, fag, exhaust, tire out.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A term of reproach to women.

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