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jade
Part of speech: NounA tired or worn- out horse; a vicious woman; a young woman; ised contemptuously or humorously; an opaque semiprecious stone of dark green color.
Part of speech: VerbTo tire by long continued labor.
Usage examples "jade":- To this point the Cape Barrow Eskimo in the old days brought their most precious medium of exchange,- a peculiar blue jade, one bead of which was worth six or seven fox- skins. - "The New North", Agnes Deans Cameron.
- It is hard to do anything with Fortune's wheel when one is at the very bottom; and the jade seems to act as if you were a drag upon her. - "Hills of the Shatemuc", Susan Warner.
- While the accused was making her defence, which she did in a modest way, her mistress was highly enraged, and interrupted her several times, by calling her a liar and a jade. - "The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus", American Anti-Slavery Society.