Omniana!

My favorite way to procrastinate, especially while working on a paper as I am doing now, is to enjoy the omnifariousness of the Oxford English Dictionary online. Right now I am really into omni- words, clearly. Here are a few more words from tonight:
Omnivolent: Willing or wishing for everything; determining all things.
Ecomiac: Of or pertaining to eulogy; panegyrical.
Encoffin: Enclosed in a coffin.
Enchiridion: A handbook or manual; a concise treatise serving as a guide or for reference.
Turgescent: Becoming swollen; swelling, growing bigger.
Turgescible: Capable of swelling up.
Reckonmaster: A mathematician; an arithmetician; an accountant.
Encheer: trans. To cheer, render cheerful. Hence encheering.

This will be me someday. In library, with cat.
(from http://www.nickhaus.com/)

Today I used "placid" in conversation and the person with whom I was talking was kind of ruffled by this, because I had used it to describe people (e.g., "The generally placid townsfolk went crazy when the bag of money fell out of the armored truck." That was the context.) and not water and or things having to do with or containing water. But as it turns out the OED seems to be in agreement with me on that one; placid is for people. I think the word "turgid" also came up in this conversation (so it's been in my head since then, see above; I love any variation on "turgid"). The conversation was actually mostly about the weirdness of keeping and transporting money in bags.

Bag of money; very stylish.