weigh housed
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weigh housed adj. Softened by drink into a building where every parcel awaits official measurement. weigh stationed adj. Loosened by drink into stopping beside every road vehicle for a brief assessment.
weigh-inned adj. Drunk past the point of keeping private figures private, especially when nobody has asked for them. weighaged adj. Slowed by drink to paying a small toll before every act of measurement. weighbeamed adj. Drunk and balancing two opinions with the solemnity of a large steelyard. weighboarded adj. Of a drinker: divided into thin, successive layers, each bearing a separate account of the facts. Simmone became weighboarded, offering several thin versions of where the evening had begun. weighboated adj. Reduced by drink to measuring modest amounts with unnecessary care. weighbridged (/ˈweɪbɹɪd͡ʒd/) adj. Drunk to the point where every vehicle entering the room must cross a platform. weighbridgemanned adj. Drunk enough to operate an imaginary roadside platform for passing livestock. weighed (/weɪd/) adj. Drunk since last orders, and requiring the assembled company to measure each proposed route home. weighered (/ˈweɪ.əd/) adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing between measuring people and measuring objects. weighershipped adj. Drunk beyond ordinary hospitality and into the office of official measurement. weighhoused adj. Sharpened by drink into an old inspection room for goods of uncertain quantity. weighing boated adj. Drunk, with the result that every sample seems to require an open tray. Kimathi became weighing boated and arranged the nuts in shallow dishes. weighing bottled adj. Drunk to a degree that makes small quantities seem best preserved behind glass.
weighing funnelled adj. Drunk to the extent of placing everything in a wide opening before transferring it elsewhere.