bead vs drip

bead

noun
  • A small drop of water or other liquid. 

  • A narrow molding with semicircular section. 

  • A bubble, in spirits. 

  • Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster. 

  • Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose. 

  • A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming. 

  • A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes. 

  • A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead. 

  • Various small, round solid objects. 

verb
  • To cause beads to form on (something). 

  • To apply beads to. 

  • To form into a bead. 

drip

noun
  • A drop of a liquid. 

  • A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person. 

  • Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing. 

  • A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping. 

  • A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing. 

  • An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream. 

  • That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater. 

verb
  • To have a superabundance of valuable things. 

  • To rain lightly. 

  • To be wet, to be soaked. 

  • To fall one drop at a time. 

  • To whine or complain consistently; to grumble. 

  • To leak slowly. 

  • To let fall in drops. 

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