Emily Dickinson Lexicon

JADE, v.i.

To become weary; to lose spirit; to sink. They are promising in the beginning, but they fall and jade and tire in the prosecution. South.

JADE, v.t.

1. To tire; to fatigue; to weary with hard service; as, to jade a horse.
2. To weary with attention or study; to tire. The mind once jaded by an attempt above its power, is very hardly brought to exert its force again.
3. To harass; to crush. Shak.
4. To tire or wear out in mean offices; as, a jaded groom. Shak.
5. To ride; to rule with tyranny. I do not now fool myself, to let imagination jade me. Shak.

JAD'ED, pp.

Tired; wearied; fatigued; harassed.

JADE'RY, n.

The tricks of a jade. Beaum.

JAD'ING, ppr.

Tiring; wearying; harassing.

JAD'ISH, a.

1. Vicious; bad, like a jade.
2. Unchaste. L'Estrange,

JAG, n. [Sp. saga, a load, packed on the back part of a carriage. Qu.]

A small load.

JAGG, or JAG, n.

A tooth of a saw; a denticulation. In botany, a cleft or division. Martyn.

JAGG, v.t. [perhaps G. zacken, a tooth, a prong, to indent; Sw. tagg, a sharp point]

To notch; to cut into notches or teeth like those of a saw.

JAG'GED, pp.

1. Notched; uneven.
2. a. Having notches or teeth; cleft; divided; laciniate; as, jagged leaves.

JAG'GED-NESS, n.

The state of being denticulated; unevenness. Peacham.

JAG'GER-Y, n.

In Burman, sugar from the sap of the Palmyra tree.

JAG'GING, ppr.

Notching; cutting into teeth; dividing.

JAG'GING-I-RON, n.

An instrument for making cakes, with ornamental figures.

JAG'GY, a.

Set with teeth; denticulated; uneven. Addison.

JAG-U-AR', n.

The American tiger, or once of Brasil, belonging to the genus Felis. Cyc.

JAH, n.

Jehovah.

JAIL, n. [Fr. geole; Arm. geol or jol; Sp. jaula, a cage, a cell. Sometimes written very improperly gaol, and as improperly pronounced gole.]

A prison; a building or place for the confinement of persons arrested for debt or for crime, and held in the custody of the sherif.

JAIL'BIRD, n.

A prisoner; one who has been confined in prison.

JAIL'ER, n.

The keeper of a prison.

JAIL'FE-VER, n.

A dangerous and often fatal fever generated in jails and other places crowded with people.

JAKES, n. [Qu. L jacio, to throw.]

A house of office or back-house; a privy. Swift.

JAL'AP, n. [Port. jalapa; Fr. jalap; Sp. xalapa; so called from Xalapa, a province in Mexico, whence it is imported.]

The root of a plant, a species of Convolvulus. It is brought in thin transverse slices, and also whole, of an oval shape, hard, solid and heavy. It has little or no taste or smell, but is much used in powder as a cathartic. Cyc.

JAL'A-PIN, n.

A vegetable proximate principle of the official Jalap.

JAM, n.

1. A conserve of fruits boiled with sugar and water.
2. A kind of frock for children.