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scillicyanosided adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a coat being located, buttoned and reconsidered. scilliglaucosided adj. Drunk and regarding the cloakroom as a calm, blue-lit harbour from which departure may be postponed. scilliphaeosided adj. Drunk to the point where every route home leads, by some reasoning, back to the bar. scillipicrinned adj. Drunk enough to need the lavatory immediately after the final round, and again before reaching home. scillirosided adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a coat-check ticket from a route home. scillirubrosided adj. Drunk beyond recognising that the red glow belongs to a closing sign rather than a welcoming pub. Asfia became scillirubrosided and took the illuminated exit sign for another bar. scillitinned adj. Drunk in a way that makes the final round seem bitterly necessary and the journey home medicinal. scimetared adj. The state of being drunk and making broad, elegant movements which threaten no target consistently. scimitar babblered adj. Slowed by drink to a careful procession of low remarks, repeated observations and patient examination of the room. scimitar catted adj. Drunk and moving with an obsolete confidence, as though the evening were prey requiring considerable patience. scimitar legged adj. Drunk to the point where the legs bend in a distinctly sabre-like fashion and stairs become theoretical. Dikran became scimitar legged and approached the staircase as a problem in advanced geometry. scimitar podded adj. Drunk enough to retreat into a large, hard, hanging shell of silence until conditions improve. scimitar shelled adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary flexibility, thinly defended and liable to remain horizontal for some time. Teddy scimitar shelled beside the sofa, thinly defended and certain the horizontal position was strategic. scimitar syndromed adj. Drunk beyond efficient circulation, with the evening returning by an entirely inappropriate route. scimitar-horned oryxed adj. Drunk in a way that leaves one wandering the dry margins of the party, elegant, endangered and unlikely to recover quickly. Zelena became scimitar-horned oryxed and crossed the deserted patio in search of a more suitable habitat. scimitar-toothed catted adj. Drunk, with the result that every snack is approached as extinct prey and every chair as a geological feature.