Jade: Definition and part of speech

Jade

  1. n. A young woman; — generally so called in irony or slight contempt.
  2. n. A stone, commonly of a pale to dark green color but sometimes whitish. It is very hard and compact, capable of fine polish, and is used for ornamental purposes and for implements, esp. in Eastern countries and among many early peoples.
  3. n. A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag.
  4. n. A disreputable or vicious woman; a wench; a quean; also, sometimes, a worthless man.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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