'Job's tears' definitions:
Definition of 'Job's tears'
(from WordNet)
noun
Hard pearly seeds of an Asiatic grass; often used as beads
Definition of 'Job's tears'
From: GCIDE
- 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]