| Gag, common (noun): heavy, rolled-leather wadding thrust back behind the teeth, over the tongue of a slave, secured in place by a broad, mouth-covering strap, with three smaller straps attached to it. ~Dancer of Gor, page 271~ Game of favors (noun): a game played by Free Woman at the Carnival where each woman is given ten scarves and must run about asking for the men to accept her favor; the goal to be the first to get rid of the scarves and run back. ~Players of Gor, page 44~ Gant, arctic (noun): migratory bird that nests on cliffs in the Hrimgar Mountains, the southern border of the polar north. When frozen, their eggs are eaten like apples. ~Beasts of Gor, page 196~ Gant, jungle (noun): a bird related to the marsh gant which inhabits the river in rainforests inland of Schendi. ~Explorers of Gor, page 311~ Gant, marsh (noun): a small long-legged horned bird; broad-billed and broad-winged; hunted by marsh girls It's cry is imitated by the rence people as as a surreptitious means of communication. ~Raiders of Gor, pages 4, 10, 41, 44~ ~Vagabonds of Gor, page 128~ Garbage death (noun): the death for a slave where a slave is bound naked, and thrown to canal urts, as in Port Kar. ~Tribesmen of Gor, page 313~ Garden, walled (noun): term used for the place highborn Free women are raised in until a suitable suitor is found. ~Tarnsman of Gor, page 107 and 108~ Giani (noun): tiny cat-sized panther of solitary habits which inhabits the low branches of ground level in rainforests inland of Schendi. ~Explorer's of Gor, page 312~ Gieron (noun): an allergen which causes a yellowing of the whites of the eyes; in combination with sajel, a pustulent, it reproduces the symptoms of the Bazi plague. ~Explorers of Gor, page 154~ Gim, horned (noun): a small purplish owl-like bird with tufts over eyes c. 4 ozs. in weight which inhabits the forests of northern Gor. ~Captive of Gor, pages 39 and 97~ Gim, lang (noun): an insectivorous bird which inhabits the ground level of rainforests inland of Schendi. ~Explorers of Gor, page 311~ Gim, yellow (noun): a bird related to the horned gim which inhabits the second level of rainforests inland of Schendi. ~Explorers of Gor, page 311~ Gint (noun): a tiny (6 inches) freshwater fish which inhabits the rivers of the rainforests inland of Schendi; it has bulbous eyes and flipper-like fins; is amphibious having both lungs and gills; is capable of walking on its pectoral fins; often found in the company of tharlarion feeding off the scraps of their kills. ~Explorers of Gor, pages 299 and 384~ Gint, giant (noun): a large cousin of the gint found in western Gor similar in appearance but with a 4-spined dorsal fin; is also amphibious and capable of walking on its pectoral fins. ~Explorers of Gor, pages 384 and 389-390~ Girl catch (noun): a contest to settle disputes where young women free and slave are captured by the opposing village within a boundaried area. ~Beast of Gor, page 41~ ~Magicians of Gor, page 40~ Girl-capture chain (noun): short chain used specifically to capture without serious damage; similar to the garrote in use but with chain in place of thin wire. ~Savages of Gor, page 180~ Girl-yoke (noun): a narrow piece of wood with holes drilled in the middle and at each end. To secure a girl, thongs are looped through each end hole and the hole at the neck, attached to both wrists and neck. ~Savages of Gor, page 281~ Girth cloth (noun): feed sacks, made of rough cloth are cut into strips, hemmed and sewn together to create a cloth ten feet long and one yard wide, This cloth is used to wrap newly hatched tharlarions as they emerge from the hot sand. ~Fighting Slave of Gor, page 262 and 272~ Gitch (noun): biting insect; description is vague, although it is used near mention of roaches. ~Mercenaries of Gor, page 277~ Gladius (noun): a short double-edged Gorean sword ~Mercenaries of Gor, page 387~ Glana (adverb): 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. ~Savages of Gor, page 203~ ~Dancer of Gor, page 128~ Glass of the Builders (noun): apparently a spy glass or telescope. The following annotations describe it as long and used for observation, being 'snapped shut' after use aboard a ship. ~Raiders of Gor, pages 197, 201-203, 259, 260, and 271~ Glave (noun): lighter, bladed, poles used by polemen on barges to cut through rushes and sedge in the marshes. ~Raiders of Gor, page 69~ Golden Beetle (noun): an insect roughly the size of a rhinoceros which lives in the caverns below the Nest of the Priest-Kings in the Sardar Mountains; its prey is the Priest-Kings themselves. It releases an aroma and exudate which is so compelling to a Priest-King that to die by that method is referred to as succumbing to the 'Pleasures of the Golden Beetle' ~Priest-Kings of Gor, pages 180 and 274-276~ ~Tribesmen of Gor, page 31~ |
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