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melanostatinned adj. The state of being drunk and inhibiting one’s own colour, movement, and eventual account of the evening. Deyli melanostatinned by the jukebox, inhibiting movement, colour, and any useful account of events. melanostibited adj. The condition of a drinker who has combined several incompatible elements and settled into a dark, crystalline stubbornness. melanotaeniided adj. The drunkenness of one who displays several colours at once, chiefly when questioned about the route home. melanotekited adj. Reduced by drink to Lorenzia and Fardin: orthorhombic in posture, leaden in judgement, and difficult to carry. Lorenzia was melanotekited beside the mantel, rigidly aligned with the wrong explanation. melanothallited adj. Softened by drink into Yalisa and Morgane, whose coppery convictions now dissolve on contact with conversation. Yalisa was melanothallited, yielding gently whenever anyone questioned the route home. melanotransferrinned adj. Sharpened by drink into Breydin and Clowie, who bind every available fact to themselves with the persistence of a surface glycoprotein. Breydin was melanotransferrinned, acquiring each new detail and refusing to release it. melanotroped adj. Still drunk, and seeing every pale surface as something requiring a darker coat before breakfast. melanotrophed adj. Too drunk to stop producing explanations for the dark circles beneath your eyes. Tyeka arrived melanotrophed, attributing the morning's shadows to several unrelated causes. melanotropinned adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard the morning's pallor as a reversible arrangement of colour. melanotubuled adj. Having drunk enough to form a thickened inner tube, then wait for the night to harden around it. melanotyped adj. Having drunk enough to turn each social encounter into a fixed, slightly blurred keepsake. melanovanadited adj. Describing a drinker who has settled into a dark, immovable mood that companions cannot shift. Becka became melanovanadited and Jadean abandoned attempts to improve the conversation. melanterited adj. Having drunk more than the green, fibrous residue at the bottom of the glass can reasonably explain. Kalaiah woke melanterited, with a greenish resolve to avoid anything fermented. melanured adj. You have drunk enough to swim slowly through the Mediterranean morning, dark-tailed and obsolete. Auril was melanured, circling the breakfast table with the unhurried dignity of an old fish. melanurenic acided adj. Of a drinker: decomposed overnight into a white crystalline apology for the previous evening. melanuriaed adj. You are drunk and producing a morning account of the night in unusually dark, indelible terms.