la
laager
Lady
Lake Ngao
Lake Shaba
Lake Ushindi
lance, kailla
*lance, tharlarion
*Language, The
lar
larl
larl, black
*larl, red
*larl, white
*larma, applelike
*larma, succulent, peachlike
*lart, snow
*Lar-Torvis
*last girl
*Last Spear
last veil
*Laura
*Laurius River
*leading position
*leash
*leash, hair
*leashed-legs tie
*leech plant
*leech, marsh
*leem
*leg-spreader
*lelt
*lesha
*liana vine
*lice, tarn
*lit, common
*lit, crested
*lit, needle-tailed
*lo
*Lo Sardar
*long ship
*longhouse, Torvaldsland
*Looking into the blood
*loot pit
*Love Feast
*love furs
*Love War
*Low Caste
*luck girl
*lung fish
*Luraz
*lure girl
*Lydius
(phrase; fem): I am; you are
-(noun): also known as wagon fort, it is a defensive wagon formation utilized by wagon peoples. Wagons are arranged in a circle, end to end, tongues inward, and chained together, the front axle of one wagon chained to the rear axle of the next. The encampment, the draft animals, and any accompanying livestock are protected within.
Book 21: Mercenaries of Gor, page 43
Book 23: Renegades of Gor, page 7
-(noun): a term of respect used to address a free woman. A contradiction exists in the books. Although we are told free women are always addressed as 'Mistress', there are instances where a slave uses 'Lady' without rebuke.
Book 11: Slave Girl of Gor, pages 309,389 and 381
Book 18: Blood Brothers of Gor, pages 386-387
Book 19: Kajira of Gor, page 219
Book 14: Fighting Slave of Gor, page 223
-(noun): an equatorial lake of the Jungles of Schendi, the Ua River enters it's eastern extremity, connecting this Lake to Lake Shaba in the NE corner of the rainforest. 'The Falls of Bila Haruma', named for the famed explorer of this region, lies 100 pasangs to the east. The villages of Unkungu are located on the NE shore. Nyundo is the central village of the Ukungu region.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, pages 100, 454, and 455
-(noun): located in the NE corner of the Schendi rain forest, it is the source of the great river Ua. Originally named Lake Bila Haruma for the explorer who discovered it, the name was changed at the great explorer's request by Tarl Cabot.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 454 and 455
-(noun): drained by the Kamba River and Nyoka River, it is a large, equatorial lake, located in the Jungles of Schendi. The inland village of Nyuki is located on the north shore. It's western border is made up of bogs, marshes, and floodlands. A canal connects Lake Ushindi east across the swampland to Lake Ngao.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 100 and 455
-(noun): used for hunting kailiauk and mounted warfare, there are two types. The hunting lance are longer, heavier, and thicker than the war lance, and are undecorated except for the feathers of the prairie fleer. The point of the hunting lance is longer and narrower. The shafts are made from black, supple, and strong, made from tem wood. head is made of metal, bone or stone, affixed to the shaft with sinew, rawhide or metal trade rivets. Any decoration or mountings, such as wrist loops are bound onto the weapon with rawhide and sinew.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, page 15
Book 17: Savages of Gor, page 42
-(noun): weapon designed for use from the rider's mount on a high tharlarion, it is longer and heavier than the kaiila lance, for example.
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor, page 115
Book 17: Savages of Gor, page 42
-(noun): the fierce, sweet, liquid speech of a native Gorean.
Book 3: Priest Kings of Gor, page 52
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 100
-(noun): central; as in Lar-Torvis 'The Central Fire' .
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor, page 28
-(noun): a large (7 ft. at shoulder) feline with a broad viper shaped head and cat-like slitted pupils; carnivorous; similar to a lion; the females of the species tend to be smaller than the males.
Book 3: Priest Kings of Gor, page 18
-(noun): predominately nocturnal larl which is sable coated and maned both male and female.
Book 3: Priest Kings of Gor, page 18
-(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
-(noun): seen in icy mountains of the Sardar they are the largest of the big cats standing 8 feet; upper canines extending below their jaws very similar to saber-toothed tiger; long tails are tufted at the ends.
Book 3: Priest Kings of Gor, page 22
-(noun): single-seeded applelike fruit; a variation of the succulent juicy larma with a single seed; commonly called pit fruit.
Book 20: Players of Gor, page 267
-(noun): fruit with a hard shell, brittle and easily broken, which encloses a fleshy endocarp, juicy and delicious. When a female is referred to as a 'larma', it is meant that her frigid exterior conceals a quite different interior. Larma or other fruit may be offered by a kneeling slave to her Master in a quiet plea for his sexual use of her.
Book 10: Tribesman of Gor, page 27 and page 37
Book 23: Renegades of Gor, page 437
-(noun): a small 4-legged mammal, about 10 inches high, weighing between 8 and 12 pounds. The snow lart has two stomachs and hunts in summer, filling the second stomach in the fall to last the animal through winter. It's pelt is snowy white and thick. It is considered valuable, selling in Ar for half a silver tarsk. They are found in the Polar North.
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 74
-(noun): a Gorean term for the sun is The Central Fire taken from Pythagorean expressions.
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor, page 28
-(noun): used to denote either the newest girl on a chain, or the least of all the girls.
Book 17: Savages of Gor, page 240
-(noun): the last hunter in a band of hunters in the Voltai Ranges to thrown his spear; this spearman is the weakest of the party and will if all spears have not killed the prey and it attacks be the one sacrificed to allow his fellows to escape.
Book 3: Priest Kings of Gor, page 20
(noun): the innermost of the five veils worn by free women; it is worn under the veil of the citizeness, and is often very sheer
-(noun): east and north of Ko-ro-ba about two hundred pasangs inland from the sea called Thassa on the Laurius River; it is a small trading city, a river port, whose buildings are made largely of wood. It is a clearinghouse for a various goods, a mercantile town.
Book 7: Captive of Gor, page 59
-(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
-(noun; used as a command): posture of a slave girl bending forward at the waist with her head at a master's hip so that he may grab her hair and guide her where he wishes her to go.
Book 21: Mercenaries of Gor, page 399
Book 25: Magicians of Gor, page 46
-(noun): various types of rope, fiber, chain, etc. used to restrict a slave from flight or movement. The rope or fiber chains may be corded with wire to prevent them from being shredded by chewing.
Book 25: Magicians of Gor, page 195
-(noun): hair confined into a ponytail with a ribbon or wooden fillet, so called because it can be used as a method of seizure and control by the Master.
Book 22: Dancer of Gor, page 112
-(noun): a standard submission tie; the kneeling girl has the leash, attached to her collar, passed down the front of her body and between her legs to bind her crossed ankles together.
Book 14: Fighting Slave of Gor, page 244
-(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
-(noun): described as rubbery about 4 inches long; it attaches itself to plants in the marsh or float free in the water, waiting for warm blooded animals. They fasten themselves to their victim to suck blood until, satiated, they detach. They can be removed with fire or salt. They are edible.
Book 24: Vagabonds of Gor pages 96-97, 99-100, 102 and 236
-(noun): a small arctic rodent some five to ten ounces in weight which hybernates in the winter. Its furs are sold by the Red Hunters.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 74
-(noun): devices of various complexity designed to keep a slave girl's legs spread while being used sexually by her master(s); sometimes used on male captives as an indication of humiliation; used mostly among the Red Savages of the Barrens.
Book 17: Savages of Gor, page 162
-(noun): a small (5-7 inches) blind fish with fernlike filaments at either side of the head which are its sensory organs; white with long fins it swims slowly and is the main food of the salt shark; inhabits the brine pits such as those at Klima in the Tahari.
Book 10: Tribesmen of Gor, page 247
-(command; lit. 'leash'): the slave remains standing or kneeling, depending upon her current position. She turns away from her Master, tilting up her chin and turns her head to the left as a leash is attached to her collar. Her wrists are extended behind her to be locked into slave bracelets or otherwise bound.
Book 11: Slave Girl of Gor, page 125
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 76
-(noun): a rainforest plant which can be used as a source of drinking water.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 310
-(noun): marble sized parasites that infest wild tarns.
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor, page 142
-(noun): a bird found in the second level of rainforests in the Schendi area.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 311
-(noun): a brightly plummaged bird found in the second level of rainforests in the Schendi area.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, pages 236 and 311
-(noun): a bird found in the emergent (highest level) of rainforests in the Schendi area.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 311
-(phrase; masc.): I am; you are.
Book 7: Captive of Gor, page 266
-(phrase): I am a Priest-King.
Book 3: Priest-Kings of Gor, pages 76 and 220
-(noun): a swift maneuverable ship having 2 rudders 1 removable lateen-rigged mast and a keel-to-beam ratio of 8:1; often used in military actions; some are fitted as ram-ships.
Book 6: Raiders of Gor, page 127
-(noun): the hall of the Torvaldslander is about 120 Gorean feet in length, with walls formed of turf and stone, some more than eight feet in thickness. It is heated by a fire in it's center, burning in a rounded pit. It's ceiling, supported by posts is about 6 feet in height. At one end is a cooking area and along each side, stones mark sections off into sleeping quarters, furs strewn over an dirt floor. Scattered throughout are tables and benches. The center of the hall proper is about twelve feet in width.
Book 9: Marauders of Gor, pages 90-91
-(phrase): Gorean ritual where a hunter drinks a handful of blood from his prey, then takes another handful and looks into it to see his future, before drinking it. It is said that if one sees one's visage black and wasted, one will die of disease; if one sees oneself torn and scarlet, one will die in battle; if old and white haired, one will die in peace and leave children.
Book 2: Outlaw of Gor, page 38
-(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
-(noun): common name for the 5th Passage Hand occurring in late summer which time is the greatest period for the sale of slaves esp. slave girls.
Book 5: Assassin of Gor, page 193
-(noun): luxurious furs, perhaps of the larl, thrown to the floor by the Master when he wishes to make use of his slave girl.
Book 1: Priest-Kings of Gor, page 68
-(noun): The Wagon Peoples compete against the Warriors of Turia on the Plain of Stakes during the Second Passage Hand (May 15th-19th) in mid-spring, participating in various challenges and ceremonial combats. For Turians, the contest is to win ownership of a slave of the Wagon Peoples. The Four Tribes compete to win high born Turian free women, which will be turned into slaves of the wagons.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, pages 115 -124
-(noun): those under High Caste; normally not born or trained to rule; allowed only First Knowledge
See: *Caste, gorean
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor page 42
Book 3: Priest-Kings of Gor, page 71
Book 14: Fighting Slave of Gor, pages 209-211
Book 24: Vagabonds of Gor, page 378
-(noun): a slave girl who acts as mascot onboard ship; her use is usually reserved for the captain of the ship but she may be shared with the crew usually as a disciplinary measure.
Book 16: Tribesmen of Gor, page 61
-(noun): also called gints; small fish found near half-submerged roots of shore trees or sunning on the back of tharlarion.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 384
-(noun): a minor tribe of the Tahari; they are a vassal tribe of the Aretai.
Book 10: Tribesmen of Gor, page 47
-(noun): slaves who are set out by their master's to entice men for the purposes of empressing as crewmen or in work gangs. While the man is delightfully distracted, her master's men accost him and hustle him away.
Book 22: Dancer of Gor, page 244
-(noun): free port administered by Merchants, at the mouth of the Laurius where it empties into the Thassa. Goods, primarily rough goods like tools, crude metal and cloth are shipped from this port to many islands and coastal cities.
Book 7: Captive of Gor, page 59
