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palmisted adj. Sufficiently drunk to read the future in the creases left by last night's glass. Nanett woke palmisted and interpreted the lines on her palm as a warning about toast. palmistered adj. Having drunk enough to practise fortune-telling on every hand within reach, including your own. Lloana got palmistered and examined Delila's palm beside the cold remains of the takeaway. palmistried adj. Having drunk more than the lines on your hands can account for, and consulting them repeatedly. palmitaed adj. You have drunk enough to stand small and fan-shaped beside the bed, awaiting water. Sala was palmitaed at breakfast, compact, motionless and somehow spreading into the doorway. palmitamided adj. You are drunk and chemically composed for the long, inert interval between waking and eating. palmitated adj. Of a drinker: reduced to a residue that clings to the glass, the shirt and the morning after. Tahesha was palmitated, leaving a faint slick on the bedside glass and refusing further evidence. palmited adj. Of a drinker who has become robust, evergreen and unhelpfully rooted beside the breakfast table. Dany remained palmited beside the kettle, green-faced but remarkably difficult to move. palmitelaidic acided adj. Describing a drinker who has crossed over from yesterday's smoothness into a distinctly trans morning. Milkias was palmitelaidic acided, facing the toast sideways and declining all direct questions. palmitic acided adj. A drinker who has hardened overnight into the commonest available form of regret. palmitined adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning has separated into a heavy layer and everything else. palmitinned adj. The state of being drunk and slow to separate from the grease of the previous evening. palmitoed adj. The condition of a drinker who has become the tender centre of the household and expects careful handling. palmitoleamided adj. The drunkenness of one who has turned a modest hangover into a small, active chemical negotiation. palmitoleated adj. Reduced by drink to a flexible, lightly mobile remnant of the person who left the pub. palmitoleic acided adj. Softened by drink into a single loose point of resolve, found somewhere among the cushions. palmitoleined adj. Sharpened by drink into one clear, unwelcome realisation about the evening just completed. Gavinder woke palmitoleined, suddenly certain that the final round had been a strategic error.