Gorean Dictionary: V

Val (noun): a letter of the Gorean alphabet.

vangis (noun): type of produce sold at market; detailed description unavailable.

Var (phrase): meaning 'turning'; also signifies north of the Gorean compass; as in Ta-Sardar-Var.

vart (noun): Vart - small sharp-toothed winged mammal, carnivorous, which commonly flies in flocks.

vart, brown (noun): carnivorous animals that rest clinging upside down on branches.

vart, jungle (noun): a relative of the northern vart, it inhabits the rain forests inland of Schendi.

Vask (noun): signifies south on a Gorean compass.

veck (phrase): stand.

veil (noun): a covering or coverings for the face, worn by free women in many city states; up to five are worn  see also house veil, last veil, pride veil, street veil, veil of the citizeness, intimacy veil.

veil of the citizeness (noun): the second of the veils worn by free women; worn under the pride veil and over the last veil.

veminium (noun): a bluish wildflower  - commonly found on the lower ranges of the Thentis mountains; used in perfumes.

veminium, desert (noun): small gorean flower, grows at the edge of the Tahari, has a purplish flower.

veminium oil (noun): by-product of Veminium petals being boiled in water; a scented oil used in middle to upper-class homes to rinse hands before and after eating.

verr (noun): a mountain goat indigenous to the Voltai Mountains; wild, agile, ill tempered, with long hair and spiraling horns; source of a form of wool; it milk is potable, as well as being used for cheese.

Victoria (noun): port town located on the Vosk River, one of the founding members and headquarters of the Vosk League. Known as a haven for pirates, and for it's slave markets.

viktel (noun): triumph

Viktel Aria (noun): a military road, the phrase translates as 'Triumph of Ar', or, 'Ar's Triumph'. In it's more northern lengths it is called the Vosk Road and it's northern terminus is Ar's Station.

vint (noun): tiny, sand-colored insects found in the Tahari Desert.

virgin bell (noun): single bell sometimes worn on a Free Woman's left ankle to announce her availability to swains.

Voltai Range (noun): mountain range of Gor; also known as the Red Mountains.

Vosk Delta (noun): at the mouth of the Vosk River, where it empties into the Tamber Gulf and the Thassa beyond, is a marshland thousands of square pasangs deep of estuarial wilderness. The marshes can be traversed in small rush crafts through hundreds of shallow, constantly shifting channels. The delta is inhabited, particularly in the east, by communities of rence growers who eke out a living harvesting rence. The Vosk Delta is trackless and treacherous, and the habitat of the marsh tharlarion and the predatory Ul. The entire area is claimed by Port Kar which lies within it, some hundred pasangs from it's northwestern edge.

Vosk League (noun): 19 members - Turmuj, Ven, Tetrapoli, Port Cos, Tafa, Victoria, Fina Ragnar's Hamlet, Hammerfest, Sulport, Sais, Siba, Jasmine, Point Alfred, Jort's Ferry, Forest Port, Iskander, Tancred's Landing, and White Water.

Vosk River (noun): Gor's mightiest river, flowing thousands of pasangs in a slightly southwesterly direction from it's source in the Voltai Range to the marshes of the Vosk Delta, the Tamber Gulf, and on the the Thassa, it rampages across most of known Gor, over forty pasangs broad.

Voyages of Acquisition (noun): voyages made to Earth by the Priest-Kings to gather biological samples; this perhaps accounts for the similarity in many animals, as well as in language and culture, between Earth and Gor.

vulo (noun): a tawny colored poultry bird, similar to a pigeon, which also exists in the wild; used for meat and eggs

Gorean Dictionary: U

Ua River (noun):   River of Schendi meaning "Flower River"

ubar (noun): war chief

ubar san (noun, lit. 'one ubar'):  war chief chosen to be supreme commander of the 4 tribes of the Wagon Peoples

ubara (noun): the Free Companion (consort) of a ubar

ubarate (noun): the territory governed by a ubar

Ugly Acts (noun): term for heterosexual sex used by the Sames, also known as the Waniyanpi, a collective slave community of the Red Savages. Sex is monitored by their owners and is performed, en masse, on an appointed day, the male and female slaves being hooded and brought to a maize field for breeding.

Ul (noun):  Ul - giant pterodactyl (native to the swamps in the delta of the Vosk River).  normally the only creature that dares to outline itself against the sky, in the area.

Ulo (noun): Innuit word for "woman's knife." semi-circular blade, fixed in a wooden handle, not suited for carving, used primarily for cutting meat and sinew.

umbrella bird (noun): bird that lives in the lower canopies of rainforest near Schendi.

Umiak (noun):  large skin boat, 20' in length, 5' in it's beam, used in the polar sea, made of driftwood and long bows of bone.

urt (noun): a small, silken furred rodent akin to the Earth rat; it has three rows of teeth, two tusks, and two horns

Urt (Giant) (noun):- fat, sleek and white; three rows of needle like white teeth, two horns, tusks like flat crescents curved from its jaw; another two horns, similar to the first, modifications of the bony tissue forming the upper ridge of the eye socket

urt, canal (noun): rapid moving water mammal living along canals; particularly found in Port Kar.

urt, gliding (noun): animal living in the canopies of the rainforests inland of Schendi.

urt, ground (noun): a small rodent which inhabits the floor of the rain forests inland of Schendi.

urt, leaf (noun): a small tree dwelling rodent, having 4 toes, which inhabits the rain forests inland of Schendi.

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.

Urt Soldiers (noun): a warrior society of the Yellow Knife tribe of Red Savages.

urt, tree (noun): a small tree climbing rodent found in the rain forests inland of Schendi

use discipline (noun): a punishment which avows the free man's prerogative to sexually use a house-owned girl as discipline.

use-master (noun): a master that is given temporary use of a girl by her owner.

use-name (noun): a practice, apparently supported by First Knowledge, which is followed by members of lower castes. Their 'real' name is held privately. Their 'use-name' is public knowledge. The belief is that public knowledge of their real name allows someone to have power over them.

Ushindi (noun): Lake of Schendi; means Victory.

Ushindi Fisher (noun): long legged, wading bird.