Job \Job\ (j[=o]b), n.
The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the
prototypical patient man.
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{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.
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