jade 
3 A young woman: used in irony or play- 
fully. ' 
You now and Ihen see some handsome young jades. 
Addison. 
Fie ! Nathan ! flc ! to let an artful jade 
The close recesses of thine heart invade. 
Crabbe, Parish Register. 
jade 1 (jad), v. ; pret. and pp. jaded, ppr. jading. 
[< jade 1 , . The like-seeming Sp. jadear, ija- 
dear, pant, palpitate, is quite different, being 
*~ 
, , 
connected ult. with jade*.~\ I. trans. If. To 
treat as a jade ; kick or spurn. 
The honourable blood of Lancaster 
Must not be shed by such a. jaded groom. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iv. 1, 62. 
I can but faintly endure the savour of his breath, at my 
table, that shall thus jade me for my courtesies. 
B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, iv. 4. 
2. To reduce to the condition of a jade; tire 
out; ride or drive without sparing; overdrive: 
as, to jade a horse. 
It Is a dull thing to tire, and, as we say now, to jade 
anything too far. Bacon, Discourse. 
Mark but the King, how pale he looks with fear. 
Oh! this same whorson conscience, how it jades us! 
Beau, and Fl., Philaster, i. 1. 
3. To weary or fatigue, in general. 
The mind once jaded by an attempt above its power is 
yery hardly brought to exert its force again. Locke. 
Jaded horsemen from the west 
At evening to the castle pressed. 
Scott, L. of the L, v. 83. 
=8yn. 2 and 3. Weary, Fatigue, etc. See tirel, v. t. 
fl. intrtms. To become weary; fail; give 
out. 
They are promising in the beginning, but they fail and 
jade and tire in the prosecution. South, Sermons. 
jade 2 (jad), . [< F. jade, < Sp. jade, jade, orig. 
"piedra de yjada, pierre bonne centre le co- 
lique" (Sobrino, Dice. Nuevo, ed. 1734), a name 
given (like the later equiv. nephrite, q. v.) be- 
cause the stone was supposed to cure pain in 
the side: Sp. piedra, < L. petra, stone; de, of; 
yjada, now spelled ijada, the side, flank, pain in 
the side, colic, < L. as if 'iliata, < ilium, ileiim, 
usually in pi. ilia, the flank, the groin: see ilium, 
iliac 1 .] A tough compact stone, varying from 
nearly white to pale or dark green in color, much 
used in prehistoric times for weapons and uten- 
sils, and highly prized, especially in the East, 
for ornamental carvings. Two distinct minerals are 
included under the name. One of these is nephrite, a 
closely compact variety of hornblende (amphibolei classed 
with tremolite when nearly white and with actinolite when 
of a distinct green color ; it is fusible with some difficulty, 
and has a specific gravity of from 2.9 to 3. The other is 
jadeite, which is a silicate of aluminium and sodium, analo- 
gous in formula to spodumene ; a variety of a dark -green 
color and containing iron has been called chloromela- 
nite. It is more fusible than nephrite, and has a higher 
specific gravity, viz. 3.3. This is the kind of jade most 
highly valued. Its translucency and color, varying from 
a creamy white through different shades of delicate green, 
give great beauty to the vases and other objects carved 
from it. The Chinese, who have long made use of jade 
for rings, bracelets, vases, etc., call it yu or yu-shih (jade- 
stone). A variety of jadeite having a pale-green color is 
called by them .fei ts'ui, or kingfisher-plumes. The best- 
known locality from which jade has been obtained is the 
Kara-Kash valley in eastern Turkestan. Jade implements 
have been found in considerable numbers among the relics 
of the Swiss lake-dwellers, but it is generally believed that 
the material was brought from the East ; they are also 
found in New Zealand, in the islands of the Pacific, in 
Central America, Alaska, and elsewhere, and the facts of 
their distribution are of great interest in ethnography. 
(See cut under ax.) The word jade is sometimes extended 
to embrace other minerals of similar characters and hence 
admitting of like use, as zoisite (saussurite, the jade of 
De Saussure and jade tenace of Haiiy), fibrolite, a kind of 
serpentine, and others. Also called ax-stone, and by the 
Maoris of New Zealand punamu. Oceanic jade, a name 
given by Damour to a fibrous variety of jade found in New 
Caledonia and in the Marquesas Islands, having a specific 
gravity of 8.18, and differing from ordinary nephrite in 
the proportion of lime and magnesia which it contains. 
Encyc. Brit., XIII. 540. 
jadedly (ja'ded-li), adv. In a jaded manner; 
wearily. 
Kilgore came and dropped jadedly into a chair. 
The Money-Makers, p. 282. 
jade-green (jad'gren), n. In decorative art, 
especially in ceramics, a grayish-green color 
thought to resemble that of the superior kinds 
of jade. 
jadeite (ja'dit), n. [< jade% + -ite 2 .] See jade?. 
jadery (ja'der-i), n. [< jade* + -ery.~\ The 
tricks of a jade or a vicious horse. 
Pig-like he whines 
At the sharp rowel, which he frets at rather 
Than any jot obeys ; seeks all foul means 
Of boisterous and rough jadery, to dis-seat 
His lord, that kept it bravely. 
Fletcher {and another), Two Noble Kinsmen, v. 4. 
jadish (ja'dish), a. [< jade* + -ish 1 .] 1 . Skit- 
tish; vicious: said of a horse. 
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So, In tins mongrel state of ours, 
The rabble are the supreme powers, 
That horsed us on their backs, to show us 
A jadish trick at last, and throw us. 
S. Butler, liudibras, III. ii. 1614. 
2. Ill-conditioned ; unchaste: said of a woman. 
This jadish witch Mother Sawyer. 
Ford (and Dekker), Witch of Edmonton, iv. 1. 
Tis to no boot to be jealous of a woman ; for if the hu- 
mour takes her to be jadish, not all the locks and spies in 
nature can keep her honest. Sir li. L' Estrange. 
jaeger, n. Seejdger. 
jael-goat (jal'got), n. Seejaalyoat. 
Jaffna moss. See moss. 
jag 1 (jag), v. t.; pret. and pp. jagged, ppr. jag- 
ging. [< ME. jaggen, joggen, cut, slash, jab; 
prob. of Celtic origin: < Ir. Gael, gag, notch, 
split, gag, n., a cleft, chink, = W. gay, an aper- 
ture, cleft, gtigen, a cleft, chink.] 1. To notch; 
cut or slash in notches, teeth, or ragged points. 
I iange or cutte a garment. ... I iagge not my hosen for 
thriftebutforabragge. . . . If I iayge my cappe thou hast 
naught to do. Palsgrave. 
2. To prick, jab, or lacerate, as with a knife or 
dirk. [Now prov. Eng., Scotch, and southern 
U.S.] 
[He] enjoynede with a geaunt, and jaygede hym thorowe I 
Jolyly this gentille for-justede another. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2087. 
She sat him in a goolden chair, 
Andjagg'd him with a pin. 
Sir Hugh (Child's Ballads, III. 335). 
3. Naut., to lay or fold in long bights, as a 
rope or tackle, and tie up with stops. 
jag 1 (jag), n. [< ME. jagge, a projecting point 
( 
jagging-iron 
seek aid of, turn with supplication to.] 1. 
In Hindu myth., a name given to Krishna, the 
eighth incarnation of Vishnu. 2. A celebrated 
idol of this deity at Puri in Orissa. It is a rudely 
carved wooden image, of which the body is red, the face 
black,amlthe anus gilt; the mouth isopen and red, as if with 
blood ; and the eyes are formed of precious stones. Itis cov- 
ered with rich vestments, and is seated on a throne between 
two others, representing Hala-ttama, the brother, and *u- 
bhadra, the sister of Krishna. The t emple at Puri stands in 
an area containing many other temples, and inclosed by a 
high stone wall about(if>0 feet square. The temple is built 
chiefly of coarse granite resembling sandstone, and appears 
as a vast mass of masonry surmounted by several towers, 
the great tower rising to a height of 192 feet. Under the 
main tower are placed the three idols. (Jreat multitudes 
of pilgrims come from all quarters of India to pay their 
devotions at his shrine. On these occasions the idol is 
mounted on an enormous car tbe car of Juggernaut 
resting on massive wooden wheels, and drawn by the pil- 
grims. Formerly many of the people threw themselves 
under the wheels to be crushed to death, the victims be- 
lieving that by this fate they would secure immediate 
conveyance to heaven. The practice is now of very rare 
occurrence. [In this sense usually Juijijernaut. ] 
Jagataic (jag-a-ta'ik), a. [< Jagatai, the na- 
tive name of Turkestan (< Jngatai, one of the 
sons of Jenghiz Khan, to whom he left this 
portion of his empire), + -ic.] Pertaining to 
Turkestan: a term applied to the easternmost 
dialects of the Turkish group of tongues, spoken 
by the people of Turkestan. 
jag-bolt (jag'bolt), . A bolt having a barbed 
shank. 
jager, jaeger (ya'ger), n. [G., a hunter.] Any 
bird of the family Laridai and subfamily Ster- 
corariinai or Lestridina:, as a skua-gull, arctic- 
bird, dirty-alien, or dung-hunter. 
or dag (of a jagged or'sfthed garinentf; from feSF"*^ J^^"**"* 
thevfrb. Cf. <fap3.] 1. A sharp notch or tooth, Jag. .. See ^^,.3. _ 
as of a saw ; a ragged or tattered point ; a zig- 
zag. 
Like waters shot from some high crag 
The lightning fell with never a jag. 
Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, v. 
The sailors rowed 
In awe through many a new and fearful jag 
Of overhanging rock. 
Shelley, Revolt of Islam, vii. 12. 
You take two pieces of paper, and tear off a corner of 
both together, so that t\\ejarts of both are tbe same. 
A. P. Sinnett, Occult World, p. 63. 
2. One of a series of points or dags cut in 
the edge of a garment for ornament: a style 
much in favor in France and England in the 
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. See dag 3 . 
jagg, 
jagged (jag'ed or jagd), p. a. [< jag 1 + 
1. Having notches or teeth, or ragged edges; 
cleft; divided; laciniate: as, jagged leaves. 
The crags closed round with black and jagged arms. 
Shettey, Alastor. 
Scattered all about there lay 
Great jagned pieces of black stone. 
William Morrii, Earthly Paradise, I. 858. 
I saw some there [in purgatory] with collars of gold 
about their necks, . . . some with more jagges on their 
clothes than whole cloth. 
W. Staunton, Vision of Patrick's Purgatory (1409), Royal 
[MS. 17 B 43. 
Iagge or dagge of a garment, fractellus. 
Prompt. Pan)., p. 255. 
Thy bodies bolstred out, with bumbast and with bagges, 
Thy rowles, thy ruffes, thy caules, thy coifes, thy jerkins, 
and ttiy jagges. Gaecoigne, Challenge to Beauty. 
3. A stab or jab, as with a sharp instrument. 
[Scotch.] 
Affliction may gie him a jagg, and let the wind out o' 
him, as out o' a cow that's eaten wet clover. 
Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, ix. 
4. In bot., a cleft or division. 5. A barbed 
joining or dovetail ; a jag-bolt. 
jag 2 (jag), v. t. ; pret. and pp. jagged, ppr. jag- 
ging. [Origin obscure.] To carry, as a load: 
as, to jag hay. [Prov. Eng.] 
jag 2 (jag), n. [See the verb.] 1. A one-horse 
load; a wagon-load. [Prov. Eng. and U. S.] 
The wagon stood in the road, with the last jag of rails 
Btill on it. Trowbridge, Coupon Bonds, p. 393. 
The flint is sold by the one-horse load, called a jag [in 
Suffolk, England], and carted to the knappers' shops. 
Ure, Diet., IV. 376. 
2. A saddle-bag; a wallet. [Scotch.] 
" I am thinkingye will be mista'en," said Meg ; "there's 
nae room for bags oijauys here." 
Scott, St. Bonan's Well, ii. 
3. As much liquor as one can carry: as, to have 
& jag on; hence, a drunken condition. [Slang, 
U. S.] 4. Af are or catch of fish. [Local, U.S.] 
5. A lot, parcel, load, or quantity: as, a, jug 
of oysters. [Local, U. S.] 
As there was very little money in the country, the bank 
bought a good jog on 't in Europe. 
C. A. Dams, Major Downing's Letters, p. 168. 
One broker buying on a heavy order . . . occasionally 
caught a jag of 2,000 or 3,000 shares. 
Missouri Republican, 1888. 
Jagannatha (jag-a-na'ta), . [In E. usually 
in accom. spelling Juggernaut (sometimes Jag- 
gernaut), repr. Hind. Jagannath, Skt. Jaganna- 
tha, lit. lord of the world, < Skt. jagat, all that 
moves, men and beasts (< -\/ gam, go, move, = 
E. come, q. v. ), + natha, protector, lord, < / ndth, 
2. Cut into jags, as sleeves and other parts 
of a garment; cut at the edge with leaf-like 
serrations: a fashion of garments common in 
the early part of the fifteenth century. See 
dag 3 . 
If the schisme would pardon ye that, she might go 
jagg'd in as many cuts and slashes as she pleas'd for you. 
Milton, Church-Government, i. 6. 
3. In her., shown with broken and irregular out- 
lines, as if torn from something else: said of any 
bearing. Jagged chickweed, ;i name of Holosteuin mn- 
bellatum. 
jaggedness (jag'ed-nes), n. The state of being 
jagged or denticulated; unevenness. 
First draw rudely your leaves, making them plain, be- 
fore you give them their veins or jaggedness. 
Peacham, Drawing. 
jagger 1 (jag'er), n. [< jag 1 + -er 1 .] 1. One 
wno or that which jags. Specifically 2. A 
little wheel with a jagged or notched edge, set 
in a handle, and used in ornamenting pastry, 
etc. Also called jagging-iron. 3. A toothed 
chisel. 
jagger 2 (jag'er), . [< jag* + -er 1 .~\ 1. One 
who works draft-horses for hire. [Prov. Eng.] 
2. One who carries a jag or wallet; a ped- 
dler. [Scotch.] 
I would take the lad for a jayger, but he has rather ower 
good havings, and he has no pack. Scott, Pirate, v. 
jaggeryt (jag'er-i), n. [Anglo-lnd., also writ- 
ten jagghery,jaggori/,jagori/.jaggree,jagra, etc., 
repr. Canarese sharkare, Hind, tkakkar. < Skt. 
qarkara, Prakrit sakkara, sugar, > Gr. canxapov, 
L. saceharon, sugar, and (through Ar.) ult. E. 
sugar: see sugar and gaeekorine.'] A coarse 
brown sugar obtained in India by evaporation 
of the fresh juice of various kinds of palm, as 
the jaggery-palm, the wild date-tree, the pal- 
myra, and the cocoa. It is usually made in the 
form of small round cakes. Also called goor. 
The East Indians extract a sort of sugar they call jayra 
from the juice or potable liquor that flows from the coco 
tree. Beverley, Virginia, ii. H 16. 
If you tap the flower-stalk [of the cocoanut] you get a 
sweet juice, which can be boiled down into the peculiar 
sugar called (in the charming dialect of commerce) jag- 
gery. O. Allen, Pop. Sci. Mo., XXV. 50. 
It is common in this country [India] to mix a small 
quantity of the coarsest sugar "goor," otjagkerv, as it 
is termed in India with the water used for working up 
mortar. Sci. Amer. Supp., p. 9146. 
jaggery-palm (jag'er-i-piim), n. A name of 
(.'ari/ota wens, the bastard sago. 
;-iron (jag'ing-i'ton), w. Same as jag- 
