Gorean Dictionary: F

face strip (verb): to remove the veil(s) worn by a free woman; to do so usually means that she is to be enslaved.

Fair of En'Kara (holiday); one of four great fairs held in the shadow of the Sardar range in the first month of the Gorean year.

Falarian (noun): an exquisite, rare, fabulously expensive wine, it's cost would purchase a city. It's existence is only rumored among collectors.

falarina (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.

fan palm (noun): found in the jungles of Schendi more than 20 feet high which spreads it's leaves in the form of an opened fan; an excellent source of water; as much as a liter at the base of each leaf's cupped stem.

Feast of Tola (noun): the Priest-King festival celebrating the anniversary of the Nuptial Flight of the Mother.

Feast of Tolam (noun): the Priest-King festival celebrating the anniversary of the Deposition of the First Egg.

Feast of Tolama (noun): the Priest-King festival celebrating the anniversary of the Hatching of the First Egg.

Fetters (slave bracelets of Torvaldsland): consist of curved, hinged bands of black iron, three quarters of an inch in width and a quarter inch in thickness. On one of each of the two curved pieces consituting a bracelet there is a welded ring; the two welded rings are joined by a single link, about an inch in width, counting both sides, each of which is about a quarter of an inch in diameter, and three inches long.

field slave (noun): one who works outdoors, usually gardening, fetching wood or water, etc. She is commonly dressed in plain, sturdy slave tunics. Her hair is shorn.

Fighting Hearts (noun): see All Comrades

finch, whistling (noun): flighted bird found at the ground level of the rainforest it is insectivorous.

fire maker (noun): a small device consisting of a small reservoir of tharlarion oil, a wick, a thumb activated, ratcheted steel wheel, and a splinter of flint; not unlike an old-fashioned cigarette lighter.

fire-maker, cylindrical (noun): a small silverish tube used for igniting cooking fires. When the cap is removed, and the implement inside is exposed to the air, it glows a fiery red.

first girl (noun): slave appointed by the Master to oversee other usually younger or less experienced girls; she rules when FreePersons are not present as the Master, but she is subject to his total authority.

First Knowledge (noun): the education available to the lower castes, such as the Peasants; it is practical, if occasionally deliberately erroneous (i.e. it purports that Gor is a flat disk).

First Spear (noun): the designated leader of a unit of spearmen.

First Sword (noun): the leader of the Guards in a given City or House.

Fisherman (noun): he who fights with net and trident (arena fighters).

flahdah (noun): flat-topped umbrella’s on crooked sticks, not more than 20 feet high, they are narrow branched with lanceolate leaves.

Flame Death (noun): a form of capital punishment imposed by the Priest-Kings and triggered from the Sardar; in it, the victim seems to spontaneously erupt in blue flames.

flame opals (noun): reddish and blue in color. Because they are much more rare on Gor they are of more value than those of Earth.

flaminium (noun): scarlet, large budded, five petaled flower.

fleer (noun): large, hook billed bird which hunts at night.

Fleer (noun): a tribe of Red Savages which inhabits the Barrens.

fleer, long-billed (noun): a bird inhabitant of the emergent level of the rainforest.

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.

Flower Tree: (noun)  lovely dangling loops of interwoven blossoms which hang from curved branches. Trees are bred so that the clustered flowers emerge in subtle delicate patterns of shades and hues.

flute girl (noun): a slave trained in the art of music, specifically the playing of the double flute. They perform at various functions and are available for sexual use by those free men of their audience.

flute, double (noun): a wind instrument.

Foot (noun); a unit of measurement equal to 10 horts, or 12 1/2 Earth inches; Merchant Foot/Gorean Foot - metal rod kept at the Sardar (same as the Stone).

fora (noun): chain; plural is fori (chains)

Forest Sleen (noun):  double fanged, six legged mammal, 20' in length, 1100 lbs. in weight.

fountain, higher bowl (noun): the portion of the public fountains from which free persons drink. There is a lower level is available for the use of animals and slaves.

fountain, lower bowl (noun): a portion of public fountains allotted for the watering of animals and slaves. Slaves caught drinking from the upper bowl face punishment by the magistrates of the city.

four chains (noun): method of chaining a girl used frequently in taverns of Port Kar.

four-strap (noun): one of a series of straps used in the navigation of a Tarn, namely descent in preparation to land.

Frame of Humiliation (noun): wooden frame to which the condemned person is tied before it is set adrift in the Vosk River, so that he may die of exposure and/or dehydration, if he is not eaten by tharlarion or other carnivorous reptiles

Free Companion (noun): spouse; consort

Free Companionship (noun): the Gorean equivalent of marriage; must be renewed annually

Free Islands (noun): also known as exchange islands, they are administered as Free Ports by the Merchants. Included are Teletus, Tabor, and Scagnar. Others were Farnacium, Hulneth and Asperiche. In the south are Anango and Ianda, and in the far north, Hunger and Skjern, west of Torvaldsland. These islands, and free ports on the coast such as Lydius and Helmutsport, Schendi and Bazi make possible the commerce between Cos and Tyros and cities of the mainland.

Free Ports (noun): the 4 free ports maintained on the Thassa north and south of the gorean equator are Lydius, Helmutsport, Schend, and Bazi.

Freewomen, enslavement of (noun): all women on Gor are subject to the dominance and order of men. Free women may lose their status, if strict rules of dress and decorum are not followed. Lacivious dress or behavior usually results in a sentence of slavery.

frevet (noun): small quick mammal, an insectivore that is kept in some homes for insect control.

Frobicain (noun): drug used for transportation during acquisition.

fruit tindel (noun): a bird? which inhabits the rain forests of the Schendi area

Fulvians (noun): foothills of the Voltai Mountains, northeast of Ar. The villa district of Ar is found here.