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vespertided adj. Of a drinker: treating the approach of evening as a formal occasion, and each stair as a devotional pause. Victoriana grew vespertided at dusk and took the staircase one solemn landing at a time. vespertilionided adj. Of a drinker who has lost the useful distinction between flying, falling, and negotiating a doorway. vespertilionined adj. Describing a drinker who navigates by brief movements, sudden turns, and an unreliable sense of open air. Fehzan became vespertilionined and crossed the hall by successive taps against the furniture. vespertilionoided adj. A drinker who circles the room at head height, changes course abruptly, and avoids the obvious route home. vespertillionided adj. A drinker so far gone that the stairs become a series of dark spaces requiring sonar. vespetroed adj. The state of being drunk and sweetly certain that the banister has medicinal properties. vespiaried adj. The condition of a drinker who has become socially intricate, noisy, and difficult to approach without consequences. vespided adj. The drunkenness of one who approaches every interruption defensively and departs with a persistent hum. vespilloed adj. Reduced by drink to carrying every discarded object away at night, without establishing where it belongs. vessailed adj. Softened by drink into a craft that drifts on uncertain water, steered chiefly by the nearest wall. vessel elemented adj. Loosened by drink into a narrow conducting channel through which speech and balance pass in separate directions. vessel fluted adj. Emboldened by drink to make an enclosed, resonant instrument of the body, especially near hard surfaces. vessel sinked adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a basin being carried carefully, though no such care is evident. vesselfuled adj. Drunk and filled to capacity, with movement reduced to the careful redistribution of contents. vesselled (/ˈvɛs.əld/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and carried through the kitchen on a course set by the nearest solid surface. vesselnessed adj. Drunk to the point where the body has become a tube with poor decisions entering at both ends.