jade

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Either of two distinct minerals, nephrite and jadeite, that are generally pale green or white and are used mainly as gemstones or in carving.
• noun A carving made of jade.
• noun Jade green.
• noun A broken-down or useless horse; a nag.
• noun A woman regarded as promiscuous.
• noun An outgoing, often flirtatious girl.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A mare, especially an old mare; any old or worn-out horse; a mean or sorry nag.
• noun Hence A mean or worthless person, originally applied to either sex, but now only to a woman; a wench; a hussy; a quean: used opprobriously.
• noun A young woman: used in irony or playfully.
• To treat as a jade; kick or spurn.
• To reduce to the condition of a jade; tire out; ride or drive without sparing; overdrive: as, to jade a horse.
• To weary or fatigue, in general.
• Synonyms and Weary, Fatigue, etc. See tire, transitive verb
• To become weary; fail; give out.
• To make a fool of; scorn.
• noun A tough compact stone, varying from nearly white to pale or dark green in color, much used in prehistoric times for weapons and utensils, and highly prized, especially in the East, for ornamental Carvings.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Min.) 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.
• noun A color resembling that of jade{1}; it varies from yellowish-green to bluish-green.
• noun A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag.
• noun A disreputable or vicious woman; a wench; a quean; also, sometimes, a worthless man.
• noun A young woman; -- generally so called in irony or slight contempt.
• intransitive verb To become weary; to lose spirit.
• transitive verb obsolete To treat like a jade; to spurn.
• transitive verb obsolete To make ridiculous and contemptible.
• transitive verb 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun uncountable A semiprecious stone either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.
• noun A grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.
• adjective Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.
• noun A horse too old to be put to work.
• noun A woman, especially in contempt.
• verb To tire, weary or fatigue

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green
• verb lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
• adjective of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green
• verb exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
• noun a woman adulterer
• noun an old or over-worked horse
• noun a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite