Joss

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Joss \Joss\ (j[o^]s), n. [Chinese, corrupt. fr. Pg. deos God, L.
     deus.]
     A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol. "Critic in jars
     and josses." --Colman (1761).
     [1913 Webster]
  


     {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.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  joss
       n : a Chinese god worshipped in the form of an idol

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  JOSS
       JOHNNIAC Open Shop System (OS, JOHNNIAC)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  JOSS
       Joint Object Services Submission
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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.
       
       

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  JOSS-:STICKS:, n.  Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan
  tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.