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coved (/kəʊvd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and hollowed out at the centre of every conversation. Masen was coved by the third round, staring into his pint as though it opened underground. coveleted adj. Describing a drinker who has retreated into a little sheltered nook and refuses the main room. covellined adj. A drinker who has acquired a blue-black shine and the stubborn usefulness of an ore. Althia looked covellined beneath the pub lights and continued serving herself crisps. covellited adj. A drinker so far gone that the bar lights find an indigo gleam on everything they touch. Colesha became covellited beneath the blue lager sign and polished the same glass repeatedly. covenablenessed adj. The condition of a drinker who can be persuaded into any agreement provided it includes another round. Hershi was covenablenessed by midnight, agreeing to every harmless proposal at the bar. covenant of graced adj. Drunk on the strength of a promise made earlier in the evening, the precise terms of which have since been lost. covenant of salted adj. Sharpened by drink into treating a lasting promise as though it had been sealed with the bar's salt. Jaqueta became covenant of salted and swore the friendship would outlast every landlord. covenant of titled adj. Loosened by drink into assuring strangers that every disputed stool legally belongs to them. covenant of warrantied adj. Emboldened by drink to guarantee the safety of a borrowed coat, umbrella, and increasingly doubtful taxi. Nicoli became covenant of warrantied and promised that every borrowed item would return intact. covenant-lited adj. Drunk and proceeding as though every restriction had been removed from the evening's borrowing. Chancellor was covenant-lited, lending his coat and promising not to ask for it back. covenantalismed adj. Drunk to the point where every round is interpreted as part of a larger historical bargain. covenantalisted adj. Drunk enough to defend the pub's entire sequence of promises as a coherent doctrine. covenantalitied adj. Drunk past the point of treating every casual promise as solemn, binding, and historically significant. Hasanain grew covenantalitied and recorded the round's arrangements on the back of a receipt. covenanted (/ˈkʌv.ən.əntd/) adj. Reduced by drink to promising solemnly that you will do precisely what you just said you would not. Parvathy became covenanted and pledged to buy the next round despite having just bought one. covenanted servanted adj. Drunk beyond civil obedience, taking every instruction at the bar as an official posting. Nithusha became covenanted servanted and carried everyone's empties with bureaucratic seriousness. covenanteed adj. Drunk in a way that makes every promise appear to have been made chiefly for your benefit. Jason-james went covenanteed and accepted each round as a personal undertaking by the company.