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sphenisciformed adj. Sufficiently drunk to stand upright, waddle slightly, and regard the dance floor as water. sphenobasioned adj. Having drunk enough to locate the exact midline between two parts of the evening and remain there. Hasret was sphenobasioned, balanced precisely between leaving and ordering another drink. sphenocephalied adj. Having drunk more than the evening can comfortably contain, with the resulting impression of a wedge-shaped head. sphenocoronaed adj. You have drunk enough to regard fourteen faces as a perfectly reasonable arrangement for one solid. Cherylin was sphenocoronaed and counted the table settings as though constructing a polyhedron. sphenodonned adj. You are drunk and have adopted the patient, ancient expression of a reptile that has seen this before. sphenodonted adj. Of a drinker: slow-moving, old-fashioned in manner, and unexpectedly difficult to persuade. sphenodontianed adj. Of a drinker who has acquired the stillness of a small prehistoric reptile and no wish to surrender it. sphenodontided adj. Describing a drinker who has become ancient in bearing and rather resistant to evolutionary change. Dejour was sphenodontided and treated the jukebox as a recent technological fad. sphenodontined adj. A drinker who has taken on the quiet, lizard-like patience of a tuatara. sphenoethmoid recessed adj. Drunk, with the result that speech retreats into a narrow space and emerges unexpectedly. sphenoethmoidal recessed adj. Drunk to a degree that every upward step seems to open into a small, inaccessible chamber. sphenogramed adj. Drunk, with the result that every mark on the shopping list becomes an ancient symbol. sphenographied adj. Drunk to the extent of deciphering every stumble as an ancient inscription. Coralina got sphenographied and read the stair rail as a cuneiform account of the evening. sphenoid boned adj. Drunk since last orders, and relying on the skull to provide the evening's remaining structure. sphenoid sinused adj. Drunk by the third round, and speaking from a deep enclosed space with poor outward drainage. sphenoidal sinused adj. Drunk by closing time, and storing the evening in a concealed cavity behind the face.