Jade

/d͡ʒeɪd/ · noun

Meaning

A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines..

Definitions by Sense

1. A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.
2. A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.
3. A succulent plant, Crassula ovata.
4. Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.
5. A horse too old to be put to work.
6. (especially derogatory) A bad-tempered or disreputable woman.
7. To fatigue, tire, or weary (someone or something).
8. (obsolete) To treat (someone or something) like a jade; to spurn.

Example Sentences

Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.

Shee hath more qualities then a Water-Spaniell, […] Shee can fetch and carry: why a horſe can doe no more; nay, a horſe cannot fetch, but onely carry, therefore is ſhee better then a Iade.

That Iade hath eate bread from my Royall hand. / This hand hath made him proud with clapping him.

[F]requent jot / Of his hard ſetting jade did ſo confound / The vvords that he by papyr-ſtealth had got, / That their loſt ſenſe the youngſter could not ſound, / Though he vvith mimical attention did abound.

Let that be as it may, as my purpoſe is to do exact juſtice to every creature brought upon the ſtage of this dramatic work,—I could not ſtifle this diſtinction in favour of Don Quixote’s horſe;—in all other points the parſon’s horſe, I ſay, was juſt ſuch another,—for he was as lean, and as lank, and as ſorry a jade, as Humility herſelf could have beſtrided.

My horse would have trotted to Clifton within the hour, if left to himself, and I have almost broke my arm with pulling him in to that cursed broken-winded jade’s pace.

The king had no other horse to give him but an old jade, for his six brothers and their men had taken all the other horses, but Ashiepattle did not mind that; he mounted the shabby old nag.

You alwayes end with a iades tricke, I knowe you of olde.

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• jades
• jading
• jaded

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