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Webster 1913 Edition
Joss
Joss
(jŏs)
, Noun.
[Chinese, corrupt. fr. Pg.
deos
God, L. deus
.] A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol.
“Critic in jars and josses.” 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.