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miner's lunged adj. Drunk, with the result that each attempt to explain the route home ends in a prolonged breathless pause. Indea was miner's lunged outside the pub, losing the address halfway through asking for a taxi. miner's mossed adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves the person collecting every heavy object in the coatroom and calling it luggage. Jarreth was miner's mossed by closing time, gathering boots, umbrellas and somebody else's scarf. miner's wormed adj. Drunk since last orders, and gradually working through the queue for directions, cigarettes and sympathy. mineral acided adj. Still drunk, and corrosive enough to dissolve the polite arrangements surrounding the last round. mineral blacked adj. Too drunk to distinguish the dark coat pile from the dark wall behind it. Irini was mineral blacked by closing time, searching the blackened coatroom for a coat of any colour. mineral blued adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake the blue light of a taxi sign for the beginning of dawn. Lillianna was mineral blued outside the pub, waving at a glowing sign that was not transport. mineral candled adj. Emboldened by drink to burn steadily, waxily, and with a rather artificial brightness. mineral caoutchoucked adj. Slowed by drink to the elastic, tarry consistency of an obsolete material. Lizelle grew mineral caoutchoucked before reaching the end of the footpath. mineral coaled adj. Drunk and reduced to a dark, ancient fuel, best left undisturbed until morning. mineral greened adj. Drunk to the point where the complexion acquires the administrative green of malachite. mineral licked adj. Drunk enough to seek out every salty surface as though supplementing a deficient diet. mineral makeuped adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a balanced constitution from an inventory of components. Clouis, mineral makeuped, explained his nutritional composition to the waiter. mineral oiled adj. Drunk beyond all useful combustion, yet still being applied indiscriminately to minor practical matters. mineral railwayed adj. Drunk in a way that conveys conversation in heavy loads, slowly and chiefly downhill. mineral righted adj. Drunk, with the result that every patch of ground appears to confer an exploitable entitlement. Merola, mineral righted, claimed the flowerbed beneath the pub window. mineral salted adj. Drunk to a degree that makes every conversation a crystalline residue of stronger acid. Ciona grew mineral salted and preserved the argument long after everyone had left.