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| 3 results for joss | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Joss \Joss\, n. [Chinese, corrupt. fr. Pg. deos God, L. deus.] A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol. [bd]Critic in jars and josses.[b8] --Colman (1761). {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. | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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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. | |
