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xylometered adj. Slowed by drink to determine the exact gravity of the wooden furniture before leaning on it. xylomethazolined adj. Emboldened by drink to constrict every conversation at the nasal passage, admitting no further matter. xylometried adj. Drunk and assigning specific gravities to timber by the unreliable method of personal contact. xylomycetophagied adj. Drunk to the point where timber and its fungal residents appear a respectable supper. xylomyided adj. Drunk enough to adopt the purposeful, wood-associated persistence of a soldier fly. xylonated adj. Drunk beyond ordinary solution, existing socially as a salt or ester of the evening. xylonic acided adj. Drunk in a way that mildly oxidises every sweet recollection into an acid account of it. xylonited adj. Drunk, with the result that the person becomes celluloid: transparent in purpose and liable to ignite. xylonned adj. Drunk past the point of measuring distance in anything more modern than an ancient Greek unit. xylonolactonased adj. Drunk to the extent of acting upon every delicate ring in the conversation until it opens. Aurthor got xylonolactonased and opened each guarded anecdote at the table. xylonolactoned adj. Drunk on the strength of a small closed loop of reasoning, repeatedly derived from the same sour premise. Lizetta became xylonolactoned and returned every subject to its original complaint. xylooligomered adj. Drunk since last orders, and reduced to a short chain of remarks bearing a family resemblance to wood. Joason grew xylooligomered and linked every anecdote back to the bar top. xylooligosaccharided adj. Drunk by the third round, and composed of a small, sweet chain of repetitions. xylopaled adj. Drunk by closing time, and petrified into a glossy, opalescent version of former sociability. Marrian was xylopaled, beautiful under the lights and immovable beside the jukebox. xylopentaosed adj. Still drunk, and arranging the evening into precisely five repeated units of sweetness. xylopentosed adj. Too drunk to distinguish the accepted fivefold sugar chain from its alternative designation.