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@@ -1549,14 +1549,23 @@ figurine*
        years by private owners and dealers too stupid to see what
        it was under the skin.
                [ The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett ]
-floating eye
-       Floating eyes, not surprisingly, are large, floating eyeballs
-       which drift about the dungeon.  Though not dangerous in and
-       of themselves, their power to paralyse those who gaze at
-       their large eye in combat is widely feared.  Many are the
-       tales of those who struck a floating eye, were paralysed by
-       its mystic powers, and then nibbled to death by some other
-       creature that lurked around nearby.
+fire trap
+       'Let him be for a while,' said Cohen.  'I reckon the fish
+       disagreed with him.'
+       'Don't see why,' said Truckle.  'I pulled him out before it'd
+       hardly chewed him.  And he must've dried out nicely in that
+       corridor.  You know, the one where the flames shot up out of
+       the floor unexpectedly.'
+       'I reckon our bard wasn't expecting flames to shoot out of
+       the floor unexpectedly,' said Cohen.
+       Truckle shrugged theatrically.  '_Well_, if you're not going
+       to expect unexpected flames, what's the point of going
+       _anywhere_?'
+               [ The Last Hero, by Terry Pratchett ]
+f* brand
+       One of a pair of legendary swords that possess the powers
+       of elemental flame and ice, and will grant these to whoever
+       is fortunate enough to wield them.
 flesh golem
        With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected
        the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark
@@ -1579,13 +1588,33 @@ flesh golem
        which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight
        black lips.
                [ Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ]
+flint*
+       An emerald is as green as grass;
+       A ruby red as blood;
+       A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
+       A flint lies in the mud.
+
+       A diamond is a brilliant stone,
+       To catch the world's desire;
+       An opal holds a fiery spark;
+       But a flint holds fire.
+               [ Precious Stones, by Christina Giorgina Rossetti ]
+floating eye
+       Floating eyes, not surprisingly, are large, floating eyeballs
+       which drift about the dungeon.  Though not dangerous in and
+       of themselves, their power to paralyse those who gaze at
+       their large eye in combat is widely feared.  Many are the
+       tales of those who struck a floating eye, were paralysed by
+       its mystic powers, and then nibbled to death by some other
+       creature that lurked around nearby.
 *flute
        With this thou canst do mighty deeds
        And change men's passions for thy needs:
        A man's despair with joy allay,
        Turn bachelors old to lovers gay.
                [ The Magic Flute, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ]
-fog cloud
+# also takes fog/vapor cloud
+fog* cloud
        The fog comes
        on little cat feet.
 
@@ -1594,6 +1623,17 @@ fog cloud
        on silent haunches
        and then moves on.
             [ Fog, by Carl Sandburg ]
+# includes "food detection" and "detect food", which might not be the best
+*food*
+       The little girl stood on tip-toe and picked one of the nicest
+       and biggest lunch-boxes, and then she sat down upon the ground
+       and eagerly opened it.  Inside she found, nicely wrapped in
+       white papers, a ham sandwich, a piece of sponge-cake, a pickle,
+       a slice of new cheese and an apple.  Each thing had a separate
+       stem, and so had to be picked off the side of the box; but
+       Dorothy found them all to be delicious, and she ate every bit
+       of luncheon in the box before she had finished.
+               [ Ozma of Oz, by L. Frank Baum ]
 fountain
        Rest! This little Fountain runs
        Thus for aye: -- It never stays
@@ -1681,6 +1721,35 @@ fox
        escaped their suspicions.
                [ Dracula, by Bram Stoker ]
 # gas spore -- see *spore
+gehenn*
+*h?nnom
+hell
+       "Place of Torment."  The Valley of Hinnom, south-west of
+       Jerusalem, where Solomon, king of Israel, built "a high place",
+       or place of worship, for the gods Chemosh and Moloch.  The
+       valley came to be regarded as a place of abomination because
+       some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch
+       there.  In a later period it was made a refuse dump and
+       perpetual fires were maintained there to prevent pestilence.
+       Thus, in the New Testament, Gehenna became synonymous with hell.
+               [ Encyclopedia Mythica, ed. M.F. Lindemans ]
+gelatinous cube
+       Despite its popularity (or perhaps because of it), the
+       gelatinous cube is also widely known as one of the sillier
+       role-playing monsters.  It is something of a commentary on the
+       ubiquity of treasure-laden dungeons in the Dungeons & Dragons
+       universe, as the cube is a creature specifically adapted to a
+       dungeon ecosystem.  10 feet to the side, it travels through
+       standard 10-foot by 10-foot dungeon corridors, cleaning up
+       debris and redistributing treasure by excreting indigestible
+       metal items.
+               [ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ]
+*gem
+gem or rock
+       The difference between false memories and true ones is the
+       same as for jewels:  it is always the false ones that look the
+       most real, the most brilliant.
+               [ Salvador Dali ]
 geryon
        Geryon is an arch-devil sometimes called the Wild Beast,
        attacking with his claws and poison sting.  His ranking in