ague vs snow

ague

noun
  • A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold. 

  • The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever 

  • An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits. 

verb
  • To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit. 

snow

noun
  • A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water. 

  • The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation. 

  • The moving pattern of random dots displayed on a television, etc., when no transmission signal is being received. 

  • marine snow 

  • A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted. 

  • Cocaine. 

  • Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid. 

  • A shade of the color white. 

verb
  • To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information. 

  • To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards. 

  • To have snow fall from the sky. 

How often have the words ague and snow occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )