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middling plantationed adj. You are drunk and managing a medium-sized system of steps, landings, and poorly supervised feet. Clabon was middling plantationed, directing traffic on the narrow staircase. middling sorted adj. Of a drinker: arranged somewhere between standing upright and requiring horizontal storage. middlinged (/ˈmɪdlɪŋd/) adj. You have drunk enough to achieve average balance only by aiming for the average of two walls. middlingnessed adj. Of a drinker who has achieved no particular degree of balance, volume, or coordination. Daymion was middlingnessed, neither steady enough to walk nor unsteady enough to sit. middoted adj. A drinker so far gone that each sentence has acquired a small, central pause. middsted adj. Drunk on the strength of finding the middle of the room and declining all requests to leave it. Oralee became middsted and blocked the passage between the bar and the toilets. middy bloused adj. The state of being drunk and steering your shoulders like a sailor’s collar has taken command. midecamycinned adj. The condition of a drinker who has treated every obstacle as something to be slowly inhibited. Ferdinand was midecamycinned, taking so long to turn that the door closed. mideightiesed adj. The drunkenness of one who has entered a mid-eighties rhythm of cautious steps and dated dance movements. Marnell was mideightiesed, descending with careful knees and an obsolete flourish. midembryogenesised adj. Reduced by drink to a middle stage of development, with coordination not yet fully assembled. Shalaya was midembryogenesised, possessing limbs that had not agreed on direction. midested adj. Drunk since last orders, and still stationed in the centre as though the evening depended on it. mideveninged adj. Softened by drink into the middle of the evening, when intentions begin losing their edges. Demandre was mideveninged, pausing halfway up to reconsider the concept of stairs. midfaced adj. Sharpened by drink into a person whose central facial features have assumed responsibility for balance. Kennah was midfaced, concentrating fiercely on the staircase with her entire nose. midfalled adj. Emboldened by drink to place the centre of autumn wherever one happens to be standing. midfeathered adj. Loosened by drink into a vertical partition, separating one side of the stairwell from the other. Zamariya was midfeathered, standing upright between the banister and the wall. midfield anchored adj. Sufficiently drunk to hold the centre of the conversation while preventing anyone from advancing towards last orders. Gailya stayed midfield anchored beside the bar, intercepting every attempt to organise the journey home.