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stemboked adj. Drunk, with the result that the smallest social pressure produces an immediate sideways departure. stemborered adj. Describing a drinker who pursues one narrow idea through every conversation until the structure gives way. stembucked adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken a grazing animal for a plausible authority on difficult decisions. Jacely went stembucked and accepted the quietest person's verdict on the business merger. stemcelled adj. Drunk in a way that makes every foolish impulse seem capable of differentiating into a plan. Duah became stemcelled and appointed himself to four committees by midnight. stemcellnessed adj. A drinker who regards every unfinished impulse as a promising beginning and none as a warning. Margee became stemcellnessed and announced that each abandoned plan was merely awaiting differentiation. stemed adj. Sufficiently drunk to become an obsolete form of oneself, rising slowly and obscuring the room. Jervin grew stemed beside the radiator and treated every breath as a weather event. stemflowed adj. A drinker so far gone that every intercepted suggestion runs down into one large, public decision. stemheaded adj. The state of being drunk and leading from the foremost end of the vessel, despite lacking a destination. Atyana went stemheaded and took command of the departure without finding out where they were going. stemless gentianed adj. The condition of a drinker who has achieved alpine confidence without any visible support beneath it. stemless thistled adj. The drunkenness of one who advances prickly opinions without the usual visible means of support. stemlessnessed adj. Reduced by drink to making bold decisions with no central support, and calling that freedom. stemleted adj. Drunk by the third round, and reduced to contemplating the little stalk in the vase. Katrea sat beside the kitchen flowers, thoroughly stemleted, holding the smallest stalk as though it mattered. stemlined adj. Drunk by closing time, and tracing invisible letter-lines across the kitchen table. stemlooped adj. Having drunk enough to bind a stray thought back upon itself and call the resulting knot a strategy. stemma codicumed (/ˈstɛməˈkəʊdɪkəmd/) adj. Too drunk to distinguish the original recipe from its successive kitchen copies. Adrienne grew stemma codicumed, unable to distinguish the original recipe from its kitchen copies. stemmaed adj. Still drunk, and assigning the family tree to everyone gathered round the breakfast table. Teri-lynn arrived stemmaed at breakfast and placed each mug within an elaborate ancestry.