Jade

n. [ OE. jade; cf. Prov. E. yaud, Scot. yade, yad, yaud, Icel. jalda a mare. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tired as a jade in overloaden cart. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A disreputable or vicious woman; a wench; a quean; also, sometimes, a worthless man. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

She shines the first of battered jades. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A young woman; -- generally so called in irony or slight contempt. [ 1913 Webster ]

A souple jade she was, and strang. Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Jaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Jading. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To treat like a jade; to spurn. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make ridiculous and contemptible. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, . . . checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after. Locke.

Syn. -- 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become weary; to lose spirit. [ 1913 Webster ]

They . . . fail, and jade, and tire in the prosecution. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. dulled by surfeit; as, the amoral, jaded, bored upper classes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. fatigued due to excess effort.
Syn. -- wearied. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

my father's words had left me jaded and depressed William Styron [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Min.) See Jade, the stone. [ 1913 Webster ]