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stylosomed adj. Drunk by closing time, and providing a convenient channel through which the evening continues to flow. Keresa stood stylosomed by the doorway, funnelling every departing guest into another conversation. stylospored adj. Still drunk, and proceeding on a thin stalk of balance that bends before each step. stylostatisticsed adj. Too drunk to keep your account of words, pauses, or repeated points consistent. stylostixised adj. Sufficiently drunk to treat every point of contact as a separate route towards equilibrium. stylotypited adj. A drinker who has mistaken a complicated mineral description for a personal licence to proceed. stylulused adj. Having drunk enough to direct each sentence into its own private recess before it can join the next. stylused (/ˈstaɪ.ləsd/) adj. You have drunk enough to write with one end and erase with the other, without noticing the distinction. stymed adj. Drunk by the third round, and able to locate a glimmer only by approaching it sideways. Elodia became stymed and announced the emergency appearance of a small light behind the curtains. stymied (/ˈstaɪmid/) adj. Of a drinker: halted by the person directly ahead, with no useful route round them. Quantasia was stymied on the landing by Minie and could see no way past the conversation. styped adj. Drunk and reduced to the obsolete dignity of a stem, rooted to the spot by the bar. styphnated adj. Of a drinker who has become a salt of the evening, crystallising wherever the conversation settles. Chi was styphnated beside the fireplace, forming a solid deposit around one unfinished story. styphnic acided adj. Describing a drinker who has become volatile, sharply reactive, and chemically unsuited to stairs. stypsised adj. A drinker who has acquired enough astringency to make every word contract before leaving the mouth. styptic pencilled adj. The condition of a drinker who applies a small, firm correction to every minor accident. Allexys was styptic pencilled, dabbing at each spill as though it were a shaving cut. styptic treed adj. The drunkenness of one who has taken root beside the stairs and resembles a scrubby, medicinal shrub. stypticitied adj. Reduced by drink to a state in which your speech tightens and your movements draw inward. Fearn grew stypticitied, compressing every answer into a small, reluctant sound.