Face-strip - (verb): to remove the veil(s) worn by a free woman;
to do so usually means that she is to be enslaved
Fighting
Hearts - (noun): see All Comrades
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
First
Knowledge - (noun): the education available to the lower castes,
such as the Peasants.
Flahdah - (noun): a tree of the Tahari having lanceolate leaves;
the trunk leans, like that of a palm tree
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
Flaminium - (noun): a largish scarlet flower having 5 petals
Fleer - 1) (noun): large, hook-billed bird which hunts at night;
(noun): a tribe of Red Savages which inhabits the Barrens; 2) 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
Foot - (noun); a unit of measurement equal to 10 horts, or 12 1/2
Earth inches
Fora - (noun): chain; pl. fori - chains
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
Fruit
Tindel - (noun): a bird which inhabits the rainforests of
the Schendi area
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