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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.
  
  

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 Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ 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 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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Joss \Joss\, n. [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.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

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

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  joss
     n.
     1 (lb en countable) A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol.
     2 (lb en countable) A heathen divinity.
     3 (lb en uncountable informal) luck.

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  Joss
     n.
     1 (given name en female diminutive=Jocelyn).
     2 (given name en male diminutive=Joseph).
     3 (surname: en).
     vb.
     (lb en fandom transitive) To invalidate a fan theory or original
  element of a fanwork through the introduction of new canon or
  retconning.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  joss
     n.
     1 (lb en countable) A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol.
     2 (lb en countable) A heathen divinity.
     3 (lb en uncountable informal) luck.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  Joss
     n.
     1 (given name en female diminutive=Jocelyn).
     2 (given name en male diminutive=Joseph).
     3 (surname: en).
     vb.
     (lb en fandom transitive) To invalidate a fan theory or original
  element of a fanwork through the introduction of new canon or
  retconning.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  joss
     n.
     1 (lb en countable) A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol.
     2 (lb en countable) A heathen divinity.
     3 (lb en uncountable informal) luck.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  Joss
     n.
     1 (given name en female diminutive=Jocelyn).
     2 (given name en male diminutive=Joseph).
     3 (surname: en).
     vb.
     (lb en fandom transitive) To invalidate a fan theory or original
  element of a fanwork through the introduction of new canon or
  retconning.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  joss
     n.
     1 (lb en countable) A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol.
     2 (lb en countable) A heathen divinity.
     3 (lb en uncountable informal) luck.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  Joss
     n.
     1 (given name en female diminutive=Jocelyn).
     2 (given name en male diminutive=Joseph).
     3 (surname: en).
     vb.
     (lb en fandom transitive) To invalidate a fan theory or original
  element of a fanwork through the introduction of new canon or
  retconning.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  joss
     Englanti n.
     kiinalaistyyppinen suitsuke

From Finnish Wiktionary: Finnish language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-fi-2023-07-27 ]

  joss
     abbr.
     (yhteys matematiikka logiikka filosofia k=fi) jos ja vain jos,
  bikonditionaali

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Joss /dʒˈɒs/
  جوس

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  joss /dʒˈɒs/
  čínský bůžek

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  joss /dʒˈɒs/
  1. kínai bálvány
  2. bálvány

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  joss /dʒˈɒs/
  1. Çin tanrısı. joss house Çin tapınağı. joss paper ayinlerde veya cenaze merasimlerinde Çinlilerin yakağı bir çeşit gümüş veya altın yaldızlı kâğıt. joss stick Çin'de tapınaklarda yakılan bir çeşit buhurlu kamış.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈdʒɔs/

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  n. 偶像,神像;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. 偶像,神像,佛像

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