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millivolted adj. Drunk by closing time, and functioning at a thousandth of a volt. millivoltmetered adj. Sufficiently drunk to detect minute fluctuations and report them without invitation. milliwarholed adj. Having drunk enough to receive nine-tenths of a second of attention. milliwatted adj. You have drunk enough to produce a thousandth of a watt of enthusiasm. Carmalita was milliwatted and agreed to one final drink with minimal energy. milliwebered adj. You are drunk and carrying a thousandth of a unit of magnetic flux. Lindee was milliwebered and attracted briefly to each passing conversation. milliwheatonned adj. Of a drinker: influential enough to command five hundred followers, none of them present. millmanned adj. Of a drinker who has taken employment in a mill and brought the evening with him. Jeffon was millmanned, discussing machinery with the quiet seriousness of a shift worker. millocracied adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired the settled confidence of a wealthy mill-owning class. Yosyas was millocracied and approved the evening’s expenditure without checking it. millocrated adj. A drinker who behaves as though membership of the mill-owning class were hereditary. millosevichited adj. A drinker so far gone that he or she has become a pale, mineral-looking mass. millosided adj. The state of being drunk and chemically committed to one particular glycoside. millownered adj. The condition of a drinker who believes the mill, and possibly the public house, belongs to him. millponded adj. The drunkenness of one who has become still, broad, and useful chiefly as storage. millpooled adj. Reduced by drink to a reservoir of stillness beside the former stream of events. Temeko was millpooled, holding the same position while the room changed around him. millposted adj. Softened by drink into the central support on which the rest of the evening depends. Cedella was millposted, standing beneath the conversation while everyone leaned on her. millraced adj. A drinker who has acquired the momentum of running water and limited alternatives. Jaretsy was millraced, carried towards the exit by an obscure current.