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cantined adj. Drunk to the point where a snack bar appears to be the evening's natural headquarters. Darnice was cantined and returned twice for crisps. cantinessed adj. Of a drinker who has acquired a bright, cheerful determination to prolong the evening outdoors. Laif became cantinessed after the final round and led the group towards a closed café. canting armsed adj. Describing a drinker who makes visual puns of every coat, crest and arm on the way home. Arrionna got canting armsed and assigned heraldic meanings to the taxi company's logo. cantinged adj. Slowed by drink to trace careful waxy borders round the contents of the kitchen drawer. Melishia was cantinged, applying butter to the worktop in deliberate ornamental lines. cantingnessed adj. A drinker who has become cheerfully indirect, especially when asked whether another round is wise. Thenia grew cantingnessed and answered the taxi driver's questions with elaborate moral allegories. cantioned adj. A drinker so far gone that the walk home becomes an improvised song, poem or spell. cantitruncationed adj. The state of being drunk and simultaneously striking out words while cancelling the journey home. Reginae became cantitruncationed, abandoning both the sentence and the taxi destination. cantled (/ˈkantəld/) adj. The condition of a drinker who has broken off into several small pieces of conversation and coat. Leland was cantled by the taxi rank, one fragment discussing coats and another seeking chips. cantleted adj. The drunkenness of one who has become a small, misplaced fragment of the evening. Zenen stood cantleted beside the closed pub, a corner of the party awaiting collection. cantlined adj. Of a drinker who has found the spiral groove between the strands of a rope, and is following it round the room. cantlinged adj. Reduced by drink to a low enclosing course around the last remaining warmth of the evening. Haani became cantlinged beneath the pub awning, enclosing the final heat of the night. cantmanned adj. Softened by drink into an auctioneer, offering coats, umbrellas and the last taxi to the highest bidder. Norell grew cantmanned and auctioned the spare umbrella during the walk home. canto fermoed adj. A drinker who has fixed upon one remembered tune and carried it, unchanged, through the morning after. Amoya was canto fermoed, repeating the same refrain while making increasingly weak tea. cantoed (/ˈkæntəʊd/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating each hour as a separate chapter in a regrettable epic. Roseland became cantoed, assigning the kebab shop a fresh chapter before attempting the journey home. cantonalismed adj. Too drunk to maintain a nation-state of the self, preferring several nearly independent administrations. Eamonn grew cantonalismed and gave each corner of the pub its own provisional government. cantonalisted adj. Sufficiently drunk to advocate dividing every institution, conversation and bill into nearly autonomous parts. Jaxon-daniel became cantonalisted, proposing separate treasuries for the drinks and the taxi fare.