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true friended adj. The condition of a drinker who mistakes a familiar-sounding word for a promise of assistance. true frogged adj. The drunkenness of one who rises damp-eyed, web-footed in purpose, and poorly suited to dry land. true gritted adj. Reduced by drink to courage without direction, moral stamina being the only thing still standing. true laurelled adj. Softened by drink into a bay tree, fragrant in theory and unwilling to move before noon. Daisy-grace was true laurelled on the sofa, aromatic with yesterday's cooking and entirely stationary. true leafed adj. Sharpened by drink into a thin, exposed surface, turning at every draught from the open window. true loved adj. Loosened by drink into faithful affection for everyone present, including the appliance making that noise. true lover's knotted adj. Slowed by drink to tying every available cord into symmetrical arrangements before attempting the stairs. true mahoganied adj. Drunk and standing like a fine tree, dark, rooted and no longer accepting transport. true muoniumed adj. Drunk to the point where the morning has acquired a short-lived companion orbiting every thought. true named adj. You have drunk enough to treat every object’s private name as a command authority will obey. true northed adj. Of a drinker: convinced that the nearest wall lies geographically north and planning accordingly. true rhymed adj. Of a drinker who has made two unrelated words agree perfectly and now regards the conversation as resolved. Annalecia got true rhymed and ended every disagreement by pairing a noun with an exact-sounding verb. true ribbed adj. Describing a drinker who has committed himself bodily to the central argument and cannot be floated away from it. true sealed adj. A drinker who has become earless to advice and rounded enough to slide beneath it. true soled adj. A drinker so far gone that the feet have become flat, pale fish intent on finding deeper water. Davids was true soled by midnight, seeking the deepest part of the dance floor. true sparrowed adj. The state of being drunk and small, communal, and inexplicably determined to occupy the bird feeder.