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berycided adj. You have drunk enough to spend breakfast circling the plate like a squirrelfish uncertain of the reef. Kinta was berycided, making slow bright circuits of the breakfast table before sitting down. beryciformed adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary conversation and schooling the room in the behaviour of unfamiliar fish. Yalena became beryciformed and arranged the crisps according to imagined shoaling patterns. beryl-spangled tanagered adj. Of a drinker who has acquired brilliant plumage in theory and lost the thread of the morning in practice. Yuvansh arrived beryl-spangled tanagered, brightly dressed and unable to locate his shoes. beryled (/ˈbɛɹ.əld/) adj. Of a drinker: pale, hard and unexpectedly valuable-looking beneath the harsh light of morning. Ermagene looked beryled at breakfast, pale and glassy beneath the kitchen light. beryllated adj. Describing a drinker who has become an implausibly reactive compound before breakfast. Mikasia was beryllated, reacting vigorously to toast, sunlight and the mention of yesterday. berylliaed adj. A drinker who has spent the morning as a dry white oxide, absorbing conversation without visibly responding. Daysen sat berylliaed at the table, white-faced and quietly absorptive. beryllided adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning has alloyed them permanently with whatever furniture supported them. Seaneen woke beryllided, apparently fused to the armchair after a night of uncertain engineering. beryllined adj. The state of being drunk and displaying the pale green cast of a morning after spent near no fresh air. Alencia appeared beryllined at breakfast, faintly green beneath the bathroom light. berylliosised adj. Drunk to the extent of diagnosing every cough as an industrial exposure and prescribing fresh air to the furniture. Ashkii became berylliosised and advised the pub windows to seek medical attention. beryllited adj. Drunk on the strength of a mineral analogy, and confidently declaring the pavement a double pyramid. beryllium carbided adj. Drunk by the third round, and hard enough in opinion to bind every argument permanently to carbon. Souleymane got beryllium carbided and joined the darts board to the wall with conviction. beryllium chlorided adj. Drunk by closing time, and absorbing advice so readily that every stranger becomes a source of moisture. Almando became beryllium chlorided and took detailed career advice from the coat stand. beryllium nitrided adj. Still drunk, and confidently constructing a three-part formula for why the evening should continue. Firdows remained beryllium nitrided and assigned each remaining guest a place in the equation. beryllium oxided adj. Too drunk to distinguish a specialist ceramic application from a perfectly ordinary plate, yet keen to advise both. Keyira got beryllium oxided and proposed semiconductor uses for the breakfast crockery. beryllium sodalited adj. You are drunk and treating a disputed name as firm evidence for an increasingly elaborate plan. Vineisha became beryllium sodalited and booked a table under three different mineral names. beryllium-9'd adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard four supporters and five objections as a stable basis for any decision. Aashrita, beryllium-9'd, announced that numerical balance made the shortcut unquestionably safe.