香

[ noun ]
a slender stick of incense burned before a joss by the Chinese
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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).

{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.