jade (n.) Old form(s): Iade , iades
worn-out horse, hack, worthless nag
1H4 II.i.6[First Carrier to Ostler, of his horse] poor jade is wrung in the withers
1H4 II.i.9[Second Carrier to First Carrier, of the conditions for his horse] that is the next way to give poor jades the bots
2H4 I.i.45[Travers to Northumberland, of a gentleman] he ... struck his armed heels / Against the panting sides of his poor jade
2H4 II.iv.159[Pistol to Hostess] [shall] hollow pampered jades of Asia ... / Compare with Caesars
2H6 IV.i.3[Lieutenant to all] loud howling wolves arouse the jades / That drag the tragic melancholy night
AW II.iii.282[Parolles to Bertram] France is a stable, we that dwell in't jades
AW IV.v.59[Clown to Lafew, of Lafew's horses] If I put any tricks upon 'em ... they shall be jades' tricks
E3 III.iii.162[King John to the French, of the English] they are as resty-stiff / As 'twere a many overridden jades
E3 III.iv.114[King Edward to all, of himself] No lovesick cockney, nor his soldiers jades
E3 IV.iv.97[Prince Edward to Second Herald, of Normandy] Bid him today bestride the jade himself
H5 III.v.19[Constable to all] sodden water, / A drench for sur-reined jades
H5 III.vii.23[Dauphin to Orleans, of his horse] He is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts
H5 III.vii.57[Constable to Dauphin] I had as lief have my mistress a jade [also: loose woman]
H5 IV.ii.44[Grandpr?š to all, of the English army] their poor jades / Lob down their heads
Ham III.ii.252[Hamlet to Claudius] Let the galled jade wince [also: sense 2]
JC IV.ii.26[Brutus to Lucilius, of insincere men compared to horses] like deceitful jades / Sink in the trial
Luc.707[of Tarquin] like a jade, Self-will himself doth tire
MA I.i.136[Beatrice to Benedick] You always end with a jade's trick [i.e. a sudden stop]
MM II.i.243[Pompey to Escalus] let carman whip his jade
R2 III.iii.179[King Richard to Northumberland] down I come like glistering Phaethon, / Wanting the manage of unruly jades
R2 V.v.85[Richard to Groom, of his horse] That jade hath eat bread from my royal hand
Sonn.51.12[] But love, for love, thus shall excuse my jade / Since from thee going he went wilful slow
TC II.i.19[Thersites to Ajax] A red murrain o'thy jade's tricks!
TG III.i.274[Launce alone, of his love] therefore is she better than a jade
TNK II.ii.29.1[Fourth Countryman to the others] I'll tickle't out / Of the jades' tails tomorrow [i.e. beat the horses so that they make up for lost time]
TNK V.iv.81[Pirithous to Palamon, of Arcite's horse] Backward the jade comes o'er
TS I.ii.246[Lucentio as Cambio to Gremio, of Tranio as Lucentio] I know he'll prove a jade
TS IV.i.1[Grumio alone] fie on all tired jades
Ven.391[Venus to Adonis, of his horse] How like a jade he stood tied to the tree
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