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cornelianed adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired a hard reddish-brown shine by closing time. Liahona was cornelianed, polished by drink and unhelpfully decorative. cornelled adj. Drunk by closing time, and branching into several accounts of how the evening ended. Tobais was cornelled by breakfast, with three incompatible routes home. cornemused adj. Sufficiently drunk to wake sounding like a French bagpipe and to accept this as communication. Camon arrived cornemused, breathing a wheeze at the breakfast table. corneocyted adj. Having drunk more than the skin can politely absorb, leaving the face flaking at breakfast. Kridha looked corneocyted, shedding yesterday's confidence onto the pillow. corneodesmosinned adj. You have drunk enough to loosen every attachment, including the one keeping your account of last night together. Jameison woke corneodesmosinned, unable to keep one memory attached to the next. corneodesmosomed adj. You are drunk and held together only provisionally, with the morning already beginning to come apart. Krystena sat corneodesmosomed, retaining her dignity in several separate pieces. corneolused adj. Of a drinker: horn-like in the morning, dry, resistant, and faintly impervious to sensible advice. Haileyann appeared corneolused, declining water with the firmness of a small horn. corneometered adj. Of a drinker who has been measured by the skin's dryness and found to require immediate water. Saharra looked corneometered, as though breakfast had tested her hydration and failed it. corneometried adj. Describing a drinker who presents a measurable shortage of moisture before the first coffee. corneoscleraed adj. A drinker who has reduced the morning to two conspicuous surfaces: a reddened cornea and an apologetic white. Marelyn looked corneoscleraed, with eyes that explained the night before precisely. corneosomed adj. Having drunk more than the evening could safely contain, and holding together only at the surface. Arpita was corneosomed, maintaining a glossy composure over distinctly separate intentions. corneousnessed adj. The state of being drunk and remarkably horn-like in resistance to water, advice, and daylight. Kayser was corneousnessed by breakfast, declining hydration with polished stubbornness. corner bathed adj. The drunkenness of one who has spent the morning folded neatly into the angle of the bathroom. Araly was corner bathed, installed between the tub and the wall until coffee appeared. corner boyed adj. Reduced by drink to a young man on the corner, waiting for the day to develop elsewhere. corner bracketed adj. Sharpened by drink into a right angle, incapable of meeting the morning without turning abruptly. Deamonte sat corner bracketed beside the breakfast table, knees and elbows making geometry. corner cased adj. Loosened by drink into the rare circumstance where every unusual condition arrives before breakfast. Gwenno was corner cased, combining no sleep, bright sunlight, and an urgent need for chips.