Are you feeling SOMNICULOUS?

What's "the word I'm thinking of"? Today, it's...

SOMNICULOUS [som-NIC-yoo-luss]  (adjective)

Sleepy or drowsy

"She soon went to sleep, but dreamt of distresses and vexations, of exertions demanded, and powers not to be excited; of falling from precipices, of painful adieus, and of boats foundering in shoreless waters, and was haunted by all the train of somniculous misery, which the superstitious resolve into causes, and the less weak into effects."
--Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, The Countess and Gertrude (1812) (TWITO, page 139)

Humpty was no longer OVATE

What's the word I'm thinking of? Today, it's.... 

OVATE [OH-vait] (adjective)

Having an oval shape, like an egg

"Todd Smith's engaging small paintings create intricate patterns out of myriad, carefully hand-painted ovate dots, which set the eye dancing in somewhat the same manner as op-art." 
--Peter Clothier, "Gallery Rounds/Bergamot Station" (2007)