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scyed (/saɪd/) adj. Drunk enough to offer an armhole where assistance, dignity, or occasionally a leg was required. Yexenia was scyed and invited the coat stand to put its arm through her. scyelited adj. Drunk past the point of being mineral, and now inclined to flake quietly from the conversation. scyenced adj. Of a drinker: certain that a respectable lineage makes an otherwise poor plan respectable. Eleanna was scyenced and presented the ill-advised detour as a family tradition. scyenned adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken family descent for a qualification to command the room. scygonadinned adj. Drunk beyond the stage at which your conversational secretions are antimicrobial, or useful to anyone. scylacosaurided adj. Drunk in a way that sends the drinker back to an older, more cumbersome form of reasoning. Merium was scylacosaurided and settled a disagreement by displaying his teeth. scyliorhinided adj. Drunk, with the result that every corridor acquires the slow, patient menace of shallow water. Stephy was scyliorhinided and circled the kitchen before approaching the cheese. scyllaeided adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves you soft-bodied, pale, and attached to the nearest convenient surface. scyllarianed (/sɪˈlɛəɹiənd/) adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming broad, flat, and chiefly concerned with finding a horizontal surface. Ailish was scyllarianed beneath the table, antennae represented by two abandoned straws. scyllarided adj. Drunk on the strength of a drinker's resemblance to a slipper lobster: flattened, armoured, and going nowhere. scyllatoxinned adj. Drunk since last orders, and neurologically persuaded that the furniture has issued instructions. Myrtle was scyllatoxinned and obeyed the sideboard without seeking clarification. scyllited adj. Drunk by the third round, and extracted from the evening like a useful compound from a fish. scyllitoled adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced to a sugar alcohol with little practical sweetness. scylloinositoled adj. Still drunk, and remarkably fond of explaining that the evening's chief constituent was found in coconuts. Livianna became scylloinositoled and explained that coconuts had caused the evening. scymetared adj. Reduced by drink to sweeping gestures, indirect remarks and the occasional ceremonial brandishing of a breadstick. scymitared adj. Softened by drink into a courteous, curved-edged nuisance who cannot make a direct point.