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sword-billed hummingbirded adj. Softened by drink into a tiny, hovering appetite with a bill apparently longer than the morning. sword-breakered adj. Loosened by drink into a person who catches at every object, argument and available handhold. sword-flagged adj. Slowed by drink to the yellow, water-bound pace of a plant beside a neglected pond. sword-swallowered adj. The condition of a drinker who has put the evening away whole and is now retrieving it carefully. swordbearered adj. Drunk to the point where every object is borne ceremonially, especially those already lying down. Gillianna was swordbearered, carrying the newspaper as though it had requested protection. swordbelted adj. Drunk enough to arrange the morning's clothes around an absent attachment for an absent weapon. Haala was swordbelted, fastening a dressing-gown cord twice before finding the sleeves. swordbilled adj. Drunk past the point of noticing that the mouth has become longer than the conversation requires. Sonata was swordbilled, unaware that the mouth had outgrown the conversation. swordbladed adj. Drunk beyond the point where the morning can be approached without a sharp edge. swordboated adj. Drunk in a way that leaves you navigating the morning like a small vessel returning from a difficult catch. Kimarion was swordboated, steering between the chairs in search of coffee. swordbreakered adj. Emboldened by drink to seize the morning's loose disputes and hold them up for inspection. swordbrothered adj. Describing a drinker who has mistaken every fellow patron for a sworn comrade in arms. swordcrafted adj. A drinker who confidently treats every awkward gesture as a disciplined stroke in an imaginary duel. sworded (/[soːd]d/) adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken every social exchange for a formal engagement at arms. swordered adj. A drinker so far gone that every disagreement appears to require a formal challenge. sworderied adj. The state of being drunk and conducting ordinary conversation as though it were swordplay. swordferned adj. Emboldened by drink to grow tall, narrow and decorative, while contributing little to household maintenance.