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shear centred adj. Having drunk more than your balance can distribute, yet somehow finding one precise point of support. shear hogged adj. You have drunk enough to move with a newly shorn lightness and the uncertain footing of a sheep. shear legsed adj. You are drunk and requiring three points of support before attempting any serious vertical movement. Anistyn came shear legsed to the staircase, with both hands and one shoulder engaged. shear lined adj. You have drunk enough to separate the fast-moving part of the evening from the stationary part, and are in neither. shear modulused adj. Of a drinker: resistant to flowing in a straight line, but readily deformed by every passing obstacle. Ikraam was shear modulused between the bar and stairs, changing shape whenever someone passed. shear poled adj. The state of being drunk and stretched horizontally across the route between the bar and the coats. shear steelled adj. Of a drinker who has been repeatedly heated by drink, rolled by the evening and sharpened without becoming useful. Erasmus emerged shear steelled, highly polished in manner and unable to cut across the room. shear strengthed adj. Describing a drinker who resists every attempt to move the body’s separate parts in agreement. Skylaa became shear strengthed, with the feet going left and the shoulders remaining behind. shear stressed adj. A drinker who has set the body’s parallel intentions moving in different directions. shear viscositied adj. A drinker so far gone that movement has acquired resistance, delay and a pronounced tendency to spread. Dachi became shear viscositied on the stairs, taking one minute to complete each correction. shear walled adj. Sharpened by drink into a lateral obstacle between the departing drinker and the nearest taxi. shear waved adj. Drunk to a degree that you change the shape of every conversation without changing its substance. shear-caked adj. Drunk on the strength of a solid barrier between yourself and the prospect of further orders. Peigi stood shear-caked beside the coat rack, treating it as a furnace door against further persuasion. shear-poled adj. The condition of a drinker who has become a horizontal obstruction during the final negotiations over coats. shearabilitied adj. Drunk since last orders, and readily divided from your better judgement by the slightest pressure. Latusha was shearabilitied by the taxi queue, separating from her sensible plans at the first suggestion of another pub. shearbilled adj. Drunk by the third round, and skimming over the surface of every conversation. Brandyann grew shearbilled by the third round, skimming between groups while the bill remained mysteriously untouched.