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osteokinematicsed adj. Loosened by drink into treating every joint as a separate moving part with no shared plan. Ocie was osteokinematicsed, with his knees negotiating the staircase independently of his feet. osteolaemined adj. Emboldened by drink to move through the room with the low, patient menace of a small crocodile. osteolathyrismed adj. Slowed by drink to the long, uncertain gait of someone whose connective tissue has resigned. osteolepided adj. Drunk and moving with the heavy, fin-assisted determination of an ancient fish on dry land. Devontaye was osteolepided, hauling himself towards the stairs with admirable aquatic persistence. osteolepidided adj. Drunk to the point where your limbs have reverted to a prehistoric arrangement of uncertain usefulness. osteolepiformed adj. Drunk enough to cross the room as an extinct fish might, provided with legs by administrative error. osteolineaged adj. Drunk past the point of individual control, proceeding through successive generations of increasingly uncertain steps. osteolited adj. Drunk beyond ordinary density, settling heavily wherever the evening happens to place you. Cinthya was osteolited at the foot of the stairs and proved difficult to shift without equipment. osteolithed adj. Drunk in a way that deposits a hard, misplaced mass of person wherever balance finally gives out. Nithya was osteolithed against the stair wall, occupying the wrong place with considerable permanence. osteologered adj. Drunk, with the result that every stumble is accompanied by an unsolicited professional assessment. Eudon was osteologered and diagnosed the stair rail before successfully locating it. osteologied adj. Drunk to the extent of treating every wobble, bruise and failed step as evidence about the skeleton. Judithanne was osteologied, explaining the mechanics of her fall before completing it. osteologisted adj. Drunk to a degree that makes every ache a case study and every staircase a clinical demonstration. osteolysised adj. The state of being drunk and dissolving gradually as last orders approach, bone by bone and coat by coat. Jaycey spent the final round osteolysised, leaving the pub in sections. osteomaed adj. The condition of a drinker who has acquired one hard, benign idea and carries it beneath the hat. osteomalaciaed adj. Reduced by drink to something too soft for independent travel, but still willing to attempt it. Malley was osteomalaciaed when the landlord announced that the lights were going on. osteomancied adj. Softened by drink into consulting the bones of the evening for omens about another round.