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*Bazi Plague
-(noun): a deadly, rapidly- spreading disease with no known cure. Its symptoms include pustules which appear all over the body, and a yellowing of the whites of the eyes. Also called pox, it is believed to be transmitted by lice. Survivors of the pox convey an immunity to their offspring. Slaves diagnosed with pox are usually killed as a method of containing the disease.
Book 11: Slave Girl of Gor, page 325
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 117
*brand, passage
-(noun): a tiny brand in the form of spreading bosk horns found on the forearm of goreans, it's presence guaranteeing their safe passage, at certain seasons, across the plains of the Wagon People.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, page 34
*brand, penalty
-(noun): small 1/4 inch brands that mark a convicted liar, thief, traitor etc.
Book 7: Captive of Gor, page 310
*bride price
-(noun): this fee is one paid by a Free Man to her family, for a Free Woman as he takes her as a Free Companion. If a man free's a slave, the slave's family is bound by honor to grant her to him without bride price.
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor, page 71
*cage, plastic
-(noun): a means of exhibiting slave girls outside a slaver's establishment suspended from the roof of the portico or in a tier of cages with a comely wench inside.
Book 5: Assassin of Gor, page 286
*carpet plant
-(noun): a plant of the rainforest area inland of Schendi having tendrils that are used in this example to bind a bandaged wound.
Book13: Explorers of Gor, page 347
*collar, plank
-(noun): a two-piece board hinged at one end and capable of being locked at the other. It has two or more semi-circular holes cut in each side so that it may fit around the necks of more than one slave girl or captive free woman at one time.
Book 15: Rogue of Gor, page 69
Book 17: Savages of Gor, page 60
*collar, plate
-(noun): collar of flat stock which is hammered about a slave's neck; usually worn by untrained slaves.
Book 8: Hunters of Gor, page 13
*Companionship Price
-(noun): the gift in money or goods given by a man to the father of the woman he wishes to take in Free Companionship
Book 8: Hunters of Gor page 174
*dance, placatory
-(noun): a dance intended to assuage the anger of a Master. It is usually free-form, depending on the situation. The 'Contrition Dance' of Turia is an example of a formal placatory dance.
Book 22: Dancer of Gor, page 332
Book 25: Magicians of Gor, page 44
*Dar-Kosis Pit
-(noun): a place where those afflicted with Dar-Kosis may voluntarily incarcerate themselves while they die. These huge pits have rudimentary shelter and a well. Once within, the sufferer may never leave. Food and necessities are thrown down from tarnback to help the diseased
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor, page 151
*egg, Priest-King's
-(noun): the last egg of the Mother sought by Tarl Cabot as an agent of the Priest-Kings so that they might replenish their race and keep it from extinction. It was found in plain sight, a gray, squarish, grained, leathery object in the wagon of the Tuchuk Ubar San, Kamchak.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, pages 326-327
*fleer, prairie
-(noun): yellow bird with long wings and a sharp bill; sometimes called the 'maize bird' or 'corn bird' from the belief that it is usually the first bird to find food.
Book 17: Savages of Gor, page 246
*golden eating prong
-(noun): an eating utensil used in Turia, it has a single tine.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, page 83
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 21
*iron pens
-(noun): the subterranean retention facilities in a Slaver's house where slaves are kept for training and prior to sale.
Book 5: Assassin of Gor, pages 117 and 273
*kailiauk, prairie
-(noun): short-trunked, stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains. Their color is tawny with haunches marked in red and brown bars. Their wide heads bear a trident horn. They instinctively circle when resting, their she's and young protected within.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, page 2
*leech plant
-(noun): a living rooted plant with bladder-like seed pods, it can fasten two hollow fang-like thorns into its victim through which it can suck the blood that nourishes it. A chemical response of the pods cause a mechanical pumping action, giving them an eerie resemblance to contracting and expanding lungs.
Book 2: Outlaw of Gor, page 33
Book 7: Captive of Gor, page 41
*loot pit
-(noun): a holding place for captured free women awaiting collars and branding during the military occupation of a city.
Book 25: Magicians of Gor, page 190
*master, private
-(noun): an individual free man who owns slaves chosen for the pleasure he will personally receive from owning them and being in their company.
Book 25: Magicians of Gor, pages 112-113
*master, public
-(noun): an individual free man or institution owning multiple slaves who are chosen for pleasing others, bringing indirect pleasure to their owner. Examples are feast slaves, flute girls, or state slaves.
Book 25: Magicians of Gor, pages 112-113
*mul-pellets
-(noun): surmised by Tarl Cabot to be a vitamin supplement for muls.
Book 3: Priest-Kings of Gor, page 109
*paddle mitten
-(noun): a mitten worn by the Red Hunter as he paddles his kayak or umiak. It has a thumb on each side, so that when one side is worn, it can be turned over.
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 280
*paga attendant
-(noun): a male employee of a paga tavern who supervises the serving of paga by slave girls and collects payment for the paga and the use of the slave girls.
Book 15: Rogue of Gor, page 77
*paga tavern
-(noun): an establishment where food and alcoholic beverages esp. paga are sold; in addition the use of the serving slave is included in the price of the paga bought.
Book 5: Assassin of Gor, page 7
*paga, drinking vessels
-(noun): paga, the fermented drink made from Sa-Tarna grain seems to have no traditions surrounding it's service, as is demonstrated by the myriad variety of serving and drinking vessels deemed acceptable by the Gorean imbiber. The following annotations list these examples of drinking vessels: cups, brass cups, glasses, bowls, goblets, metal goblets, a silver goblet studded with rubies, a golden goblet, and a kantharos
Book 5: Assassin of Gor, page 9
Book 6: Raiders of Gor, pages 102, 105, 111, 223 and 306
Book 9: Marauders of Gor, pages 22-23
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 371
Book 23: Renegades of Gor, page 71 and 77
*paga, sa-tarna
-(noun): a strong fermented drink brewed from sa-tarna (pagar-sa-tarna or Pleasure of the Life- Daughter) grain, the favored drink of Gorean men. A cup in a paga tavern would cost a tarsk bit. One of the large serving bottles may be purchased for a silver tarsk. Paga is served warmed to fiery hot. There seem to be no traditions surrounding it's service as demonstrated by the variety of vessels from which it is, stored, served and drunk.(See: *paga, serving vessels and *paga, drinking vessels)
Book 2: Outlaw of Gor, page 74
Book 8: Raiders of Gor, pages 100, 102, 111 and 113
Book 9: Marauders of Gor, pages 22 and 23
Book 15: Rogue of Gor, page 78
Book 24: Vagabonds of Gor, page 16
*paga, serving vessels
-(noun): paga, the fermented drink made from Sa-Tarna grain, seems to have no traditions surrounding it's service, as is demonstrated by the myriad variety of serving and drinking vessels deemed acceptable by the Gorean imbiber. The following annotations list these examples of serving vessels: wineskins or botas made from verrskin leather, bottles so large they must be supported by a shoulder sling, bronze vessels with a similar strap, a hydria or water vessel, as well as bottles, sealed with the insignia of the brewer. Paga is served from kettles, jugs and vats when not sealed in a large or standard sized bottle.
Book 6: Raiders of Gor, page 105, 111, 113, 120, and 171
Book 7: Captive of Gor, page 113
Book 8: Hunters of Gor, page 13
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 371
Book 24: Vagabonds of Gor, pages 16 and 36
*pagar
- (noun): pleasure.
Book 2: Outlaw of Gor, page 75
*palm tree
-(noun): More than 1500 varieties of palm trees exist in the rainforest one of which is the Fan Palm more than 20 ft high and spreads it leaves in the form of a an opened fan it is an excellent source of pure water as much as one liter of water being found almost as though cupped at the base of each leaf's stem.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 310
*palm wine
-(noun): drink mentioned briefly; no description available.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 429
*panga
-(noun): two-foot-long heavy curve-bladed bush knife.
Book 13 Explorers of Gor, page 287
*Panther Girl (forest girl)
-(noun): runaway women who live in the forest without free men, taking as slave any man who enters their domain and eventually selling him. Those of the northern forests dress in the teeth and skins of forest panthers which they slay with their spears and bows
Book 7: Captive of Gor, page 82 and 118
*panther, jungle
-(noun): Less dangerous to man than the northern variety inhabitant of the rainforest.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 312
*Parade of Slaves
-(noun): a presentation of beauty and attractions in which the slaves present themselves one by one usually accompanied by music for the inspection of the guests. Commonly takes place in paga taverns and brothels but may take place elsewhere. Free women are usually not present.
Book 24: Vagabonds of Gor, page 29
*Paravaci
-(noun): one of the 4 tribes of the Wagon Peoples, the Paravaci are known as The Rich People. Their standard is a large banner of jewels strung on golden wires, forming the head and horn of a bosk. The value of such a standard is incalculable. The Paravaci brand is a stylized representation of a bosk head: a semi-circle resting on an inverted isosceles triangle.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, page 14
*parfleche
-(noun): kailiauk hide is prepared in sheets, cut almost as thin as paper, dried in the prairie sun and layered to form a flat, leather envelope which is sealed with a seam of hardened fat. Used to store food, such as kailiauk meat.
Book 17: Savages of Gor, page 328
*parrot
-(noun): A bird found in the emergent level of the rainforest some varieties are also found in the level of the canopies of the rainforest.
Book 13 :Explorers of Gor, page 311
*parsit current
-(noun): the main eastward current of the waters above the polar basin, so named because of the several varieties of migrating parsit fish which follow it.
-Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 38
*parsit fish
-(noun): a silvery fish having brown stripes, the follow the 'parsit current' in the polar basin. In Torvaldsland, it is smoked and dried, stored in barrels, and used in trade to the south.
Book 9: Marauders of Gor, pages 28, 56, and 63-64
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 38
*pasang
-(noun): measure of distance equaling .7 miles.
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor, page 58
*pasang stone
-(noun): a stone set up along roads to mark distance to and from certain destinations.
Book 2: Outlaw of Gor, page 35
*Passage Hand
-(noun): the 5-day period between Gorean months which consist of five 5-day weeks.
Book 5: Assassin of Gor, page 78
*passion slave
-(noun): a slave girl who has been bred rather captured; specifically one that has been bred for a particular trait such as beauty or slave heat or the shape of her lips.
Book 3: Priest Kings of Gor, page 53
*Peasants, Caste of
-(noun): the basic caste of Gor; they refer to themselves as the 'Ox on Which the Home Stone Rests'
Book 2: Outlaw of Gor, pages 27 and 66
Book 5: Assassin of Gor page 157
*pemmican
-(noun): strips of dried kailiauk meat pounded into a powder and mixed with fruit, such as chokeberries, is fixed in kailiauk fat and shaped into round, flat cakes. Provides portable protein and energy source.
Book 18: Blood Brothers of Gor, page 46
*Pentilicus Tallux
-(noun): a renowned poet of the Ar of one hundred years ago, the Great Theater in Ar is named for him. It has a huge stage which can accommodate a thousand actors.
Book 25: Magicians of Gor, page110
*People
-(noun): a division of the Kur military, it is composed of twelve smaller units, the March.
Book 17: Savages of Gor, page 22
*personal serving slave
-(noun): a slave assigned or owned by the person she obeys. Her duties may include running errands, general cleaning, or caring for personal belongings.
Book 25: Magicians of Gor, page 366
*Physicians, Caste of
-(noun): the caste which practices the healing arts; the Physicians are one of the five High Castes which make up the Gorean government. Green Caste.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, pages 44, 61-63
*pierced-ear girl
-(noun): a common Turian custom which became popular after the fall of Turia to the Wagon Peoples; such a girl is permanently marked as the most abject of slaves
Book 7: Captive of Gor, pages 157, 167 and 319
Book 17: Savages of Gor, page 10-11
*Pillar of Exchanges
-(noun): about one hundred pasangs northwest of Tharna lonely white column of solid marble 400 feet in height and 100 feet in diameter. The solid pillar offers an almost ideal place for the exchange of prisoners.
Book 2: Outlaw of Gor page, 141
*Plains of Turia
-(noun): the southern prairies of Gor, described as a broad grassland, from the Thassa and the Ta-Thassa Mountains to the southern foothills of the Voltai Range. Called the Land of the Wagon Peoples, their holdings extend in the north to the Cartius River.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, pages 3 and 4
*Player
-(noun): one who makes his living as a master of Kaissa, playing for a cup of paga, or perhaps a night's lodging at an Inn. They are not a Caste, but a clan who tend to live apart, their members made up of men from various Castes who often have little in common but fame.
Book 5: Assassin of Gor, pages 27 and 325
Book 7: Hunters of Gor, page 47
*Pleasure Garden
-(noun): the name for a beautifully landscaped walled area at a wealthy Gorean home. Besides the decoration of flowers and foliage, slave girls may be kept there.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, page 217
*pleasure rack
-(noun): a device ranging in complexity from a grid of ropes in a wooden frame to a moveable adjustable frame with chains for the display and sexual use of slave girls and captive free women
Book 2: Outlaw of Gor, page 199
Book 15: Rogue of Gor, page 21
*pleasure silk
-(noun): sheer clingy form of silk worn only by slave girls; wraps like a pareau with a disrobing loop at the left shoulder.
Book 7: Captive of Gor, page 322
*pleasure slave
-(noun): a slave girl whose main function is sexual servitude to her master; traditionally she kneels with her knees spread wide and her hands either resting on her thighs or in some cities crossed behind her ready for binding.
Book 7: Captive of Gor, page 101
*Poets, Caste of
-(noun): One of the low castes. On Gor the singer or poet is regarded as a craftsman who makes strong sayings he has his role to play in the social structure celebrating battles and histories singing of heroes and cities but also he is expected to sing of living and of love and joy not merely of arms and glory; and too it is his function to remind the Goreans from time to time of loneliness and death lest they should forget that they are men. This Caste is outlawed in Tharna.
Book 2: Outlaw of Gor, page 103
*poison
-(noun): the use of poison of Gor is generally considered not worthy of men. It is against the Code of Warriors. It is thought of as a weapon of women.
Book 9: Marauders of Gor, page 18
*Polar North
-(noun): referring to the area above the Hrimgar Mountains, home of the Red Hunters. Most of this land is tundra, a treeless plain covered with mosses, shrubs, and lichens during the summer. Some two hundred and forty different types of plants grow in the Gorean arctic within 500 pasangs of the pole. In the winter, early spring, and late fall, it is s desolate, bleak, frozen barren alien landscape.
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, pages 195-196
*porcupine, long-tailed
-(noun): animal of the canopy level of the rainforest.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 311
*Port Kar
-(noun): facing the gleaming Thassa by way of the Tamber Gulf, is the crowded, squalid, malignant city at the mouth of the Vosk Delta called Port Kar. It is sometimes referred to as the Tarn of the Sea. It is the only city on Gor that recognizes a Caste of Thieves, and it is the only city on Gor actually built by slaves under the whip of their Masters. The city is a mass of holdings, each almost a fortress, all crossed and divided by hundreds of canals.Port Kar is ruled by a several conflicting Ubars, and, under them, the Council of Captains who are responsible for maintaining and managing the great arsenal, as well as the fleets of Port Kar. Her name is a synonym in Gorean for cruelty and piracy.
Book 6: Raiders of Gor, pages 6 and 103
*Port Olni
-(noun): city located on the North bank of the Olni River. A member of the Salerian Confederation.
Book 17: Savages of Gor, page 88
*pot girl
-(noun): a slave girl whose main function is cooking and other menial tasks; used
Book 5: Assassin of Gor, page 164
*Prayer Ring
-(noun): ring with several tiny knobs on it has circular knob (like the golden circle at the termination of the Initiates staff notifies that one cycle of prayer has been completed.
Book 25: Magicians of Gor, page 20
*Pride
-(noun): a military unit consisting of 100 Warriors.
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor, page 27
*Priest-King
-(noun): Sardar; golden insect-like creatures about a yard wide and almost 18 feet tall with six legs and globe-like head. Keepers of the Sacred Place in the Sardar Mountains.
Book 3: Priest-Kings of Gor, page 75
*Priest-Kings, symbol of
-(noun): described as a golden circle, which has no beginning or end; the symbol of eternity.
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 46
*Prison Moon
-(noun): of the three moons orbiting Gor, the name given to one of the two smaller ones.
Book 5: Assassins of Gor, page 170
*Prition
-(noun): title of a treatise on bondage written by Clearchus of Cos.
Book 18: Blood Brothers of Gor, page 139
Book 25: Magicians of Gor, page 194
*profalarina
-(adv): a female who is no longer a virgin or 'glana' preceded by the state of 'profalarina' indicating a female who is about to be 'falarina' and before that by 'meta glana' one who looks forward to her deflowering.
Book 17: Savages of Gor, page 203
Book 22: Dancer of Gor, page 128
*prostrate
-(noun): the slave kneels, bows her head, leans forwward and touches her forehead to the floor, stretches her arms out before her with palms face down and fingers spread.
Book 19: Kajira of Gor, page 305
*rence paper
-(noun): made from the fibers of the rence plant by rence growers, there are 8 grades, laboriously fashioned into sheets, which are attached to each other, into a roll, twenty sheets per roll. Rence paper is one of the papers used on Gor. Others are milled linen, vellum, and parchment.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor page 49
Book 6: Raiders of Gor, page 7
*rence, pith of
-(noun): edible part of the rence plant, either raw or cooked. Rence pith and fish are the dietary staples of the rence growers. Also sometimes used for caulking.
Book 6: Raiders of Gor, page 7
*Sacred Place
-(noun): the name given to a place located in the Sardar Mountains. It is considered taboo, perilous, and, until the time of Tarl Cabot, no man had ever returned from a journey to it.
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor, page 29
*sim plant
-(noun): a rambling, tangled, vine-like plant with huge, rolling leaves raised in the pasture chambers of the Nest.
Book 3: Priest-Kings of Gor, page 214
*slave box, punishment
-(noun): small square (3x3') iron box with a door having a viewing aperture of 7 inches x1/2 inches in the middle and a pass-through of 12x2 inches at the base; a punishment device for slaves.
Book 7: Captive of Gor, pages 313-314
*slave perfume
-(noun): perfumes designed to be worn by slave girls; they are heavier and more sensual than those designed for free women.
Book 10: Tribesmen of Gor, page 230
*slave pole
-(noun): imaginary pole that 'transfixes' a dancing girl by which she is 'held' during her dance.
Book 10: Tribesman of Gor, page 11
*slave porridge
-(noun): a cold unsweetened mixture of water and Sa-Tarna meal on which slaves are fed; in Torvaldsland it is called 'bond-maid gruel' and often mixed with pieces of chopped parsit fish.
Book 5: Assassin of Gor, page 126
Book 7: Captive of Gor, page 208
Book 9: Marauders of Gor, page 56, 63 - 65
Book 22: Dancer of Gor, page 66
*sleen, prairie
-(noun): the prairie sleen is tawny in color, and are smaller than the forest sleen, but quite as unpredictable and vicious. Domesticated prairie sleen are used for hunting and nocturnal herd sleen are used as shepherds and sentinels. They are released from their cages with the falling of darkness, responding only to the voice of their master.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, pages 2 and 9
Book 11: Slave Girl of Gor, page 185
*small people
-(noun): a tribe in the jungles of Schendi, not otherwise named. They are no more than 5 feet in height and weigh about 80 pounds at most. They have coppery skin and are probably of the Negroid race. They were slaves of the talunas until Tarl Cabot aided them in capturing and enslaving the last of the taluna women.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, pages 390-393 and 397-399
*staking, sleen death or punishment by
-(noun): an form of execution or punishment used when a Master is done with a slave; he may stake her for sleen, by staking ankles and legs widely apart between two stakes. The slave is blindfolded and cut on the thigh to draw blood, smearing it across her body, to attract the animal..
Book 8: Hunters of Gor, page 230 -231
*sul-paga
-(noun): clear, almost tasteless, but very potent alcoholic beverage made from suls. It is seldom available outside of the peasant villages where it is brewed.
Book 11: Slave Girl of Gor, page 134 and 414
*tabuk, prairie
-(noun): described as tawny and gazelle-like with a single horn, it responds to threat by scurrying away or lying down. Presumably this reponse is useful because of the high grass of the Barrens as most predators depend on vision to detect and locate it's prey.
Book 18: Blood Brothers of Gor, page 316
*tassa powder
-(noun): a reddish powder usually mixed with red wine which renders the consumer unconscious.
Book 14: Fighting Slave of Gor, page 222-223
Book 16: Guardsman of Gor, page 113
Book 20: Players of Gor, page 293
*urt people
-(noun): the urt people are narrow-shouldered and narrow-chested, measuring only three and a half feet tall when upright with a narrow, elongated face and rather large, ovoid eyes. They have long, thin arms and short, spindly legs along with a bent-over gai,t often bringing the knuckles to the ground, and commonly kept inconspicuously among the large, migratory urt packs.
Book 20: Players of Gor, page 267
*veil, pride
-(noun): the third veil worn by free women; worn under the house veil and over the veil of the citizeness.
Book 11: Slave Girl of Gor, page 107
*Wagon Peoples
-(noun): a fierce, migrating people consisting of four nomadic tribes that wander the Plains of Turia, living in huge, elaborate wagon homes. They grow no food, nor will they eat anything that has touched the dirt, living entirely on the meat and milk of the bosk. There is no known manufacturing. They are called herders and killers and are among the proudest peoples of Gor, regarding city dwellers as vermin in holes.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, pages 4, 5 and 9
*wagons, Wagon Peoples
-(noun): square, the size of a room, brightly colored, each drawn by a double team of bosk. The black, lacquered tem-wood wagon box which stands six feet from the ground, supports a rounded, tent-like frame covered with taut, painted, varnished bosk hide. The wheels have a diameter of 10 feet, the front wheels slightly smaller than the rear. The interiors are often lushly appointed, filled with chests and silk cushions, and ankle-deep, intricately wrought carpets, lit by hanging tharlarion oil lamps. In the center of the wagon is a small, shallow, copper, fire bowl with a raised brass grating. Some cooking may be done here, but it primarily provides heat, the smoke escaping through a smoke hole at the dome of the tent-like covering.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, pages 30-31
*wands, perimeter
-(noun): marking the boundary or Ihanke of The Barrens are hundreds of markers, seven to eight feet high made of peeled Ka-la-na wood, tipped with yellow, black-tipped feathers of the Herlit.
Book 17: Savages of Gor, pages 77 and 143
*Yellow Pool of Turia
-(noun): housed in a magnificent chamber in the House of Saphrar is a marble basin filled with a brilliant, yellow fluid. Beneath it's oddly shifting surface is a collection of threads and granules in a transparent bag of intertwined, writhing filaments and spheres, imbedded in a darkish, yellow jelly and walled in by a translucent membrane. The pool is a living, breathing monster that slowly digests it's victims. The Yellow Pool was destroyed by Kamchak after he conquered Turia
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, pages 202-213 and 322-323
*quala
-(noun): (pl. qualae) tiny, three-toed mammal, dun-colored with a stiff, brushy mane of black hair.
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor, page 140 - 141
Book 7: Raiders of Gor, page 4
*quarrel
-(noun): small arrow of the crossbow. It's initial velocity is the better part of a pasang per second. The crossbow is the preferred weapon of the assassin.
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor, page 100
Book 6: Raiders of Gor, page 2
*quern
-(noun): a grinding implement which consists primarily of a mount, two stones, an overhead beam and a pole. The two stones are circular grinding stones. The bottom stone has a small hub on its upper surface which fits into an inverted concave depression in the upper stone. This helps to keep the stones together. It also has shallow, radiating surface grooves through which the grindings may escape between the stones.
Book 23: Renegades of Gor, page 18
*quiva
-(noun): balanced saddle knife about a foot in length double edged; it tapers to a daggerlike point. It is regarded as more of a missile weapon than a hand knife.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, pages 11, 67, and 124
*she-quadrupled, modality of
-(noun): an instruction whereby the slave performs her regular duties upon hands and knees without the benefit of the use of her hands. In this mode she may not rise to her feet and may use only her mouth and teeth to grasp and manipulate objects.
Book 16: Guardsman of Gor, page 225
Book 21: Mercenaries of Gor, page 215
*ankle rack
-(noun): device used to lock a girl's ankles in wooden stockage. Girls who have been repeated runaways may be held in place to have their tendons cut or feet amputated.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 68
*archon of records
-(noun): a magistrate who is a records officer for a stated district or city.
Book 25: Magicians of Gor, page 442
*branding rack
-(noun): a device to which a new slave girl is chained for branding; her hands are chained above her head but the rest of her body is free to move except for whichever thigh is to be branded this being held motionless in a large vise.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 71
Book 17: Savages of Gor, page 121
*Cartius River
-(noun): broad, fast-flowing tributary that flows into the Vosk river far to the south and west of Ar. It is composed of three rivers, the Cartius Proper, Subequatorial Cartius, and Thassa Cartius. It's name is taken from the word cart, a compass point indicating southwest
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, page 2
Book 5: Assassins of Gor, page 207
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 106
*drum, Red Hunter's
-(noun): large, heavy, handled and disklike. The frame, made of wood with a cover of Tabuk hide, is struck on the frame with a stick, giving the drum an odd resonance sound.
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, pages 261-262
*Erhard Ringer
-(noun): the artist whose rendering of the Map of Gor appears in this dictionary. It first appeared in a German Edition of Renegades of Gor, Book 23
*exile, ritual of
-(noun): a man being exiled for whatever reason is publicly refused bread and salt, and is then ordered to leave the city by sundown under penalty of death. The exiled one may not come within ten pasangs of the city from that day forward.
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor, page 216
*grasshopper, red
-(noun): beyond color, this insect is described as weighing around 4 ounces.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 293
*hand signs, Red Savage
(noun): A mode of communication common to all the tribes of the Barren, sign is simple, easy to learn and adequate for relaying information.
Book 17: Savages of Gor, pages 242-249, 257 and 263
*Kaiila River
-(noun): a river in the Barrens, it has two branches known as the North Kaiila River and the South Kaiila River. The Snake River is a tributary of the North Kaiila River. These rivers mark important boundaries in the territories of the Isanna, Napoktan, Wismahi, Isbu and Casmu bands of the Kaiila tribe. It is conjectured that the Kaiila Tribe, finding large herds of kaiila, took the name for themselves, and later the River of the Kaiila Tribe became, simply, the Kaiila River
Book 18: Blood Brothers of Gor, page 24
*Kamba River
-(noun): empties directly into the Thassa outside the Harbor of Schendi. It leads into the rainforest.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, pages 99-100
*larl, red
-(noun): predominately day hunting larl which is tawny-red coated and has no mane in either male or female.
Book 3: Priest Kings of Gor, page 18
*Laurius River
-(noun): winding, long, gentle, slow river two hundred pasangs inland from the coast of the Thassa. The free port of Lydius is found at it's mouth. The river is not as broad or brisk as the Vosk River farther to the south. It is located below Ko-ro-ba and above Ar and flows in a generally westerly direction.
Book 7: Captive of Gor, page 59
*nose ring
-(noun): fine, gold ring fitted into a hole pierced into the septum of the nose. Among the Wagon Peoples, all females, slave and free wear such rings, as do their animals.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, page 27
Book 7: Captive of Gor, page 166
Book 17: Savages of Gor, page 11
*Nyoka River
-(noun): river that flows into Schendi harbor from the rainforest, and then on to Thassa.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, pages 16 and 100
*olive, red
-(noun): from the groves of Tyros, not otherwise described.
Book 6: Raiders of Gor, page 114
*ost, rainforest
-(noun): a snake of the rainforests inland of Schendi are red with black stripes.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 311
*pleasure rack
-(noun): a device ranging in complexity from a grid of ropes in a wooden frame to a moveable adjustable frame with chains for the display and sexual use of slave girls and captive free women
Book 2: Outlaw of Gor, page 199
Book 15: Rogue of Gor, page 21
*Prayer Ring
-(noun): ring with several tiny knobs on it has circular knob (like the golden circle at the termination of the Initiates staff notifies that one cycle of prayer has been completed.
Book 25: Magicians of Gor, page 20
*rainforest, canopies zone
-(noun): zone in rainforest that ranges from 60 to 125 Gorean feet above the jungle floor. This is the fantastic green cover which constitutes the main ceiling of the jungle. It is inhabited by an incredible number of birds, monkeys, reptiles, and insects.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 311
*rainforest, emergent zone
-(noun): an ecological level of the rainforest 125 to 200 gorean feet above the jungle floor. In this highest level, the trees have thrust above the canopies below them. Mainly birds, particularly parrots, long-billed fleers, and needle-tailed lits inhabit this zone.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 311
*rainforest, ground zone
-(noun): the 'undergrowth' of the rainforest. Extending from the ground to the lower canopies, this ecological zone is home to species of birds, snakes and insects. Many small animals, such as the giani, jit monkeys and four toed leaf urts are found in this zone as well. On the floor itself are marsupials, tarsk, twenty kinds of single-horned tabuk, and jungle larls and panthers.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 311
*ram-berry
-(noun): small reddish fruit not unlike tiny plums, save for the many small edible seeds.
Book 7: Captive of Gor, pages 207and 305
*ram-ship
-(noun): war galley having up to 3 banks of oars as well as masts and sails; named for the battering rams on the prow.
Book 6: Raiders of Gor, page 127
*rarius
-(noun; pl.rarii): warrior
Book 7: Captive of Gor, page 266
