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Job's tears




Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

	Job \Job\ (j[=o]b), 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]

	




Source: WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

	Job's tears
    n 1: hard pearly seeds of an Asiatic grass; often used as beads

	

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