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A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag. Chaucer. Tired as a jade in overloaden cart. Sir P. Sidney.

See Jade, the stone.

The tricks of a jade.

To jade or tire. [Obs.] Milton.

A variety of jade. It is used by some savages, particularly the natives of the South Sea Islands, for making axes or hatchets.

To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage. "Each battered jade." Pope.

A female dancer in the East Indies. [Written also bajadere.]

t variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade.

A sharp bit or snaffle. Pampered jades . . . which need nor break nor bit. Gascoigne.

Bound; measure. [Obs.] The poor jade is wrung in the withers out of all cess. Shak.

To make a stop; to pause; -- with at. The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, either is disabled for the future, or else checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after. Locke.

d I will stand by you; -- an old proverb. Tyndale. To claw away, to scold or revile. "The jade Fortune is to be clawed away for it, if you should lose it." L'Estrange. To claw (one) on the back, to tickle; to express approbation. (Obs.) Chaucer. -- To claw (one) on the gall, to find falt with; to vex. [Obs.] Chaucer.…

Perverse; untractable; contrary. She was none of your crossgrained, termagant, scolding jades. Arbuthnot.

An old jaded horse. Shak.

The Chinese name for a highly prized variety of pale green jade. See Jade.

ws, spears, knives, wedges, etc., which were commonly made of flint, but also of granite, jade, jasper, and other hard stones. -- Flint mill. (a) (Pottery) A mill in which flints are ground. (b) (Mining) An obsolete appliance for lighting the miner at his work, in which flints on a revolving wheel were made to produce…

A worthless woman or girl; a forward wench; a jade; -- used as a term of contempt or reproach. Grew.

Vicious; ill-tempered; resembling a jade; -- applied to a horse.

A short, sudden pull, thrust, push, twitch, jolt, shake, or similar motion. His jade gave him a jerk. B. Jonson.

de, occurring in compact kidney-shaped masses. -- Kidney stone. (Min.) See Nephrite, and Jade. -- Kidney vetch (Bot.), a leguminous herb of Europe and Asia (Anthyllis vulneraria), with cloverlike heads of red or yellow flowers, once used as a remedy for renal disorders, and also to stop the flow of blood from wounds;…