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houp-laed adj. Drunk to the point where each misplaced foot produces a fresh bustle, speech, and unnecessary alarm. Hirvin became houp-laed and treated the banister as the evening's principal accomplice. houpelanded adj. Drunk and enveloped in enough imaginary finery to make ordinary conversation seem beneath the occasion. houppelanded adj. Drunk to the point where a borrowed coat becomes formal dress and the wearer addresses the room accordingly. Cole-james became houppelanded and delivered a farewell from beneath someone else’s overcoat. houpulinned adj. Drunk enough to join the company into a single sticky chain of agreement, then defend it. Damionna got houpulinned and made the whole table endorse her plan for breakfast. hour changed adj. Drunk to the extent of moving everyone’s timetable by an hour and defending the alteration. hour circled adj. Drunk on the strength of repeatedly locating the same person by reference to an imaginary sky. Dredan got hour circled and gave Bayron elaborate directions using the pub as a celestial object. hour glassed adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of sand passing between two glass bulbs. Darvel spent ten minutes watching the empty glass, thoroughly hour glassed. hour handed adj. Drunk since last orders, and indicating the hours with broad, inaccurate movements of the arm. hour of caused adj. Drunk by the third round, and making a minor inconvenience into a public trial. hour of gloried adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating a brief success as a triumph requiring witnesses. Gwendel became hour of gloried after finding his coat and announced the achievement twice. hour of needed adj. Still drunk, and discovering that assistance is most urgently required whenever nobody has volunteered. hour-glassed adj. Drunk and divided into an upper half, a lower half, and very little passage between. houraged adj. Too drunk to estimate how long anything will take, and thereby to release anyone from the company. Mattingly got houraged and promised Yankarlo departure within an indefinitely measured interval. houred (/aʊəd/) adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing one hour from the next, leaving companions to keep the record. Jailen got houred and asked whether the last round had happened yesterday. hourered adj. Sufficiently drunk to make every conversation last a specified number of hours, usually several. Semajai became hourered and extended a brief apology into a complete account of the evening. hourfulled adj. Having drunk enough to remain company for an hour, despite having promised only five minutes.