Joss

n.

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A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol. Joss house a Chinese temple or house for the Chinese mode of worship. Joss stick a reed covered with a paste made of the dust of odoriferous woods, or a cylinder made wholly of the paste; - burned by the Chinese before an idol.

Noun

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joss - a Chinese god worshipped in the form of an idol

JOSS - JOHNNIAC Open Shop System. Charles L. Baker, RAND 1964. An early simple interactive calculator language. "JOSS Users' Reference Manual", R.L. Clark, Report F-1535/9, RAND Corp (Jan 1975) Sammet 1969, pp.217-226. Versions: JOSS I and JOSS II.

Joint Object Services Submissiongod, graven image, idol