Post by ShadowReine on Sept 28, 2008 1:12:36 GMT -5
A short trip Between - an abortion
AIVAS - AI brought by the colonists
Ancients - common term for the original colonists
Avian - a bird, normally a chicken
Bespeak - used of dragons, to communicate telepathically
Between - inter-dimensional space dragons enter when they teleport
Black water - oil
Blood, to - dragons commonly take only the blood from a kill before a mating flight
Bovine - a cow
Bowl - the open space in the center of a Weyr.
By the First Egg/By my Dragon's Egg/By Faranth's Golden Egg! - an expletive, can also be 'by the shards of'
Candidate - a young person who wishes to become a dragonrider.
Canine - a dog
Caprine - a goat
Chase - used of a male dragon, to pursue a female. (thus, sometimes a euphemism for a man obviously courting a woman)
Cold as Between - unusually cold weather
Cold turn - winter
Cothold - a small farm, a smallholding
Crafter - member of a craft, a trained professional
Crafthall - the training and research center for a craft.
Dawn Sisters - Pern's morning and evening stars, in fact the colony ships. Used to be three, now only two.
Deadglow - an idiot
Dimglow - an idiot
Dragonet - a very young dragon, a hatchling
Dragonlength - the length, nose tip to tail tip, of an average green dragon, used as a unit of measurement.
Dragonless (man/woman) - a rider who's dragon has died
Drudge - a lower ranking servant
Drudgework - tedious manual labor, unpleasant work, work an idiot could manage
Faranth! - an expletive
Feeding grounds - the Weyr's corrals, where dragons are permitted to hunt
Feline - a cat
Fellis - a medicinal plant that contains an opiate
Fingerfish - small fish, minnows
Firehead - meningitis
Firelizard - small relatives of dragons
Firestone - phosphorus-bearing stone that dragons chew to breathe fire
Flight - a group of wings, or all of the riders fighting a specific Fall
Flight brat - a child who's conception results from a mating light.
Flightlust - sexual feelings resulting from proximity to a dragon's mating flight.
Fly, to - common euphemism for sex 'I'd like to fly her' derived from the fact that dragons mate on the wing.
Gather - a gathering of people for trade and recreation, a party.
Goldlust - sexual feelings from a dragon's flight, specifically related to golds.
Glow - a phosphorescent fungus farmed and grown to provide light underground and at night.
Go Between for good/forever - euphemism for 'to die'
Greenrider's remedy - an abortion
Halfblood - an acknowledged bastard
Hatching - self evident, the hatching of a clutch of dragon or firelizard eggs
Hatching grounds - see 'Sands'
Herdbeast - any large hooved animal normally kept for food
Hidebound - traditional, set in one's ways, sometimes used to imply sexism
Hold - a farm, of any size.
Holdbred - born at a Hold
Honorific - formal term for the shortening of a name upon Impressing a fighting dragon
Impression - the act of being bonded to a dragon or firelizard
Interval - the time when the Red Star is not close to Pern, normally two hundred turns
Leathers - a rider's flying garb, similar in design to biker leathers
Ledge - an area outside a personal weyr on which a dragon can rest.
Long Interval - an unusually long Interval
Lower caverns - the part of the Weyr in which the support staff live and work.
Male greenrider - sometimes used as a euphemism for any gay male, especially an effeminate one
Needlethorn - a shrub that produces long, hollow thorns that are commonly used by the Pernese as sewing needles for both clothes and medicinal purposes and also to administer vaccinations
Numbweed - a medicinal plant that acts as a topical anesthetic
Ovine - a sheep
Packfish - a spiny fish that is common and good eating, but highly unpleasant to clean and prepare.
Pass - the time when the Red Star is close enough to Pern to cause Thread to fall, normally fifty turns
Proddy - when used of a female dragon, coming into heat. Sometimes used as a euphemism for 'that time of the month'
Queen - a gold dragon, firelizard or wher
Redwort - a medicinal plant known for its antiseptic properties
Red Star - the planetoid that brings Thread. Also an expletive 'By the Red Star'
Rim - the edge of the Weyr's crater, common hangout for off duty dragons
Rise - used of a female dragon, to rise to mate. Fly is also sometimes used.
Runner - a horse
Sands - Hatching sands, the area at the Weyr where eggs are laid
Second stomach - the organ in which dragons ignite firestone
Sevenday - a week
Shards! - an expletive
Shipfish - old or colloquial term for a dolphin.
Spiderclaw - a kind of crab
Stand - to be a candidate
Star Stones - an arrangement of stones set on the edge of each Weyr's crater that indicate when a pass begins.
Thicktail - constipation, usually referring to dragons
Thread - an unpleasant lifeform that falls from the sky during Passes and eats anything it touches
Threadfall - a period of time in which Thread is falling
Threadscore/score - any injury caused by Thread
Trader - peddler, tinker, gypsy, generally used of groups who move from Gather to Gather selling things
Tunnelsnake - six-legged vermin, tend to eat food stocks and occasionally bite humans.
Turn - a year
Turnover - New Year's Eve
Watchrider - a rider stationed at a Hold to give warning of Thread and bad weather
Watchwher - a wher used as a watchdog
Weyr - a place where dragons live, used both to refer to 'the' Weyr (Ista is a Weyr) and 'my' weyr (a rider's personal abode).
Weyrbrat - a child born at a Weyr, particularly one of uncertain parentage or who's parents leave them in the creche all the time.
Weyrbred - born at a Weyr
Weyrling - a dragon rider in training, sometimes his dragon
Weyrleader - the rider who leads all of the fighting dragons in a Weyr.
Weyrmate - a lover and comrade in arms
Weyrwoman - the senior gold rider in a Weyr
Wher - smaller cousins to dragons, flightless
Wherhide - any thick leather
Whersport - a wild wher, generally considerably smaller than domesticated whers
Wherry - a mid sized avian often kept as a food animal.
Wing - a small group of fighting dragons
Wingleader - a rider who leads a group or 'wing' of dragons
Wingsail - the membrane part of a dragon's wing
AIVAS - AI brought by the colonists
Ancients - common term for the original colonists
Avian - a bird, normally a chicken
Bespeak - used of dragons, to communicate telepathically
Between - inter-dimensional space dragons enter when they teleport
Black water - oil
Blood, to - dragons commonly take only the blood from a kill before a mating flight
Bovine - a cow
Bowl - the open space in the center of a Weyr.
By the First Egg/By my Dragon's Egg/By Faranth's Golden Egg! - an expletive, can also be 'by the shards of'
Candidate - a young person who wishes to become a dragonrider.
Canine - a dog
Caprine - a goat
Chase - used of a male dragon, to pursue a female. (thus, sometimes a euphemism for a man obviously courting a woman)
Cold as Between - unusually cold weather
Cold turn - winter
Cothold - a small farm, a smallholding
Crafter - member of a craft, a trained professional
Crafthall - the training and research center for a craft.
Dawn Sisters - Pern's morning and evening stars, in fact the colony ships. Used to be three, now only two.
Deadglow - an idiot
Dimglow - an idiot
Dragonet - a very young dragon, a hatchling
Dragonlength - the length, nose tip to tail tip, of an average green dragon, used as a unit of measurement.
Dragonless (man/woman) - a rider who's dragon has died
Drudge - a lower ranking servant
Drudgework - tedious manual labor, unpleasant work, work an idiot could manage
Faranth! - an expletive
Feeding grounds - the Weyr's corrals, where dragons are permitted to hunt
Feline - a cat
Fellis - a medicinal plant that contains an opiate
Fingerfish - small fish, minnows
Firehead - meningitis
Firelizard - small relatives of dragons
Firestone - phosphorus-bearing stone that dragons chew to breathe fire
Flight - a group of wings, or all of the riders fighting a specific Fall
Flight brat - a child who's conception results from a mating light.
Flightlust - sexual feelings resulting from proximity to a dragon's mating flight.
Fly, to - common euphemism for sex 'I'd like to fly her' derived from the fact that dragons mate on the wing.
Gather - a gathering of people for trade and recreation, a party.
Goldlust - sexual feelings from a dragon's flight, specifically related to golds.
Glow - a phosphorescent fungus farmed and grown to provide light underground and at night.
Go Between for good/forever - euphemism for 'to die'
Greenrider's remedy - an abortion
Halfblood - an acknowledged bastard
Hatching - self evident, the hatching of a clutch of dragon or firelizard eggs
Hatching grounds - see 'Sands'
Herdbeast - any large hooved animal normally kept for food
Hidebound - traditional, set in one's ways, sometimes used to imply sexism
Hold - a farm, of any size.
Holdbred - born at a Hold
Honorific - formal term for the shortening of a name upon Impressing a fighting dragon
Impression - the act of being bonded to a dragon or firelizard
Interval - the time when the Red Star is not close to Pern, normally two hundred turns
Leathers - a rider's flying garb, similar in design to biker leathers
Ledge - an area outside a personal weyr on which a dragon can rest.
Long Interval - an unusually long Interval
Lower caverns - the part of the Weyr in which the support staff live and work.
Male greenrider - sometimes used as a euphemism for any gay male, especially an effeminate one
Needlethorn - a shrub that produces long, hollow thorns that are commonly used by the Pernese as sewing needles for both clothes and medicinal purposes and also to administer vaccinations
Numbweed - a medicinal plant that acts as a topical anesthetic
Ovine - a sheep
Packfish - a spiny fish that is common and good eating, but highly unpleasant to clean and prepare.
Pass - the time when the Red Star is close enough to Pern to cause Thread to fall, normally fifty turns
Proddy - when used of a female dragon, coming into heat. Sometimes used as a euphemism for 'that time of the month'
Queen - a gold dragon, firelizard or wher
Redwort - a medicinal plant known for its antiseptic properties
Red Star - the planetoid that brings Thread. Also an expletive 'By the Red Star'
Rim - the edge of the Weyr's crater, common hangout for off duty dragons
Rise - used of a female dragon, to rise to mate. Fly is also sometimes used.
Runner - a horse
Sands - Hatching sands, the area at the Weyr where eggs are laid
Second stomach - the organ in which dragons ignite firestone
Sevenday - a week
Shards! - an expletive
Shipfish - old or colloquial term for a dolphin.
Spiderclaw - a kind of crab
Stand - to be a candidate
Star Stones - an arrangement of stones set on the edge of each Weyr's crater that indicate when a pass begins.
Thicktail - constipation, usually referring to dragons
Thread - an unpleasant lifeform that falls from the sky during Passes and eats anything it touches
Threadfall - a period of time in which Thread is falling
Threadscore/score - any injury caused by Thread
Trader - peddler, tinker, gypsy, generally used of groups who move from Gather to Gather selling things
Tunnelsnake - six-legged vermin, tend to eat food stocks and occasionally bite humans.
Turn - a year
Turnover - New Year's Eve
Watchrider - a rider stationed at a Hold to give warning of Thread and bad weather
Watchwher - a wher used as a watchdog
Weyr - a place where dragons live, used both to refer to 'the' Weyr (Ista is a Weyr) and 'my' weyr (a rider's personal abode).
Weyrbrat - a child born at a Weyr, particularly one of uncertain parentage or who's parents leave them in the creche all the time.
Weyrbred - born at a Weyr
Weyrling - a dragon rider in training, sometimes his dragon
Weyrleader - the rider who leads all of the fighting dragons in a Weyr.
Weyrmate - a lover and comrade in arms
Weyrwoman - the senior gold rider in a Weyr
Wher - smaller cousins to dragons, flightless
Wherhide - any thick leather
Whersport - a wild wher, generally considerably smaller than domesticated whers
Wherry - a mid sized avian often kept as a food animal.
Wing - a small group of fighting dragons
Wingleader - a rider who leads a group or 'wing' of dragons
Wingsail - the membrane part of a dragon's wing