Found 1 hit - Term: coix lacryma, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
job \job\ j=ob, n.
the hero of the book of that name in the old testament; the
prototypical patient man.
1913 webster
job's comforter.
a a false friend; a tactless or malicious person who, under
pretense of sympathy, insinuates rebukes.
b a boil. colloq.
job's news, bad news. --carlyle.
job's tears bot., a kind of grass coix lacryma, with
hard, shining, pearly grains.
1913 webster
see also:
job's comforter job's news job's tears coix lacryma
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