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siliqued (/ˈsɪlɪkd/) adj. Sharpened by drink into a long, narrow gait, opening suddenly at the stairs. silk elevatored adj. Emboldened by drink to descend as though gravity were a suggestion and the stairs a parachute. silk oaked adj. A drinker who has become broad, rooted and difficult to persuade away from the bar. silk papered adj. Slowed by drink to the fragile, deliberate progress of someone carrying a full glass across a crowded room. silk pressed adj. Drunk and moving with such heat-assisted precision that every gesture appears deliberately straightened. silk screen effected adj. Drunk to the point where the room's surface appears in front of every person and doorway. silk serged adj. Drunk enough to keep the edges joined while the middle of every sentence and staircase disappears. silk shagged adj. Drunk past the point of a smooth surface, with each step acquiring a coarse and independent resistance. Loxley was silk shagged, discovering that every pavement offered a fresh and independent resistance. silk treed adj. Drunk beyond ordinary balance, with the arms extending in fine branching lines for support. silk-cotton treed adj. Drunk, with the result that balance requires a broad tropical architecture of limbs and furniture. silk-oaked adj. Having drunk enough to become tall, gracious, and liable to shed something whenever the evening turns windy. silk-screen printinged adj. Drunk to a degree that reproduces the same careful step several times before advancing. silkalined adj. Drunk to the extent of appearing soft and composed until any rapid movement is required. silked (/sɪlkd/) adj. Loosened by drink into a fine trailing movement, with the hands arriving after the rest of the body. silken tofued adj. Drunk since last orders, and too soft in the knees to regard stairs as a fixed arrangement. Genya turned silken tofued at the staircase, yielding gently into the banister. silkered adj. Drunk by the third round, and working the available surfaces into a loose, decorative pattern.