braise vs stew

braise

verb
  • To cook in a small amount of liquid, in a covered pan, somewhere between steaming and boiling. 

noun
  • A sauce used for braising. 

  • A dish (usually meat) prepared by braising. 

  • Pagellus bogaraveo, syn. Pagellus centrodontus (sea bream) 

stew

verb
  • To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering. 

  • To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong. 

  • To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions. 

  • To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger. 

noun
  • A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath. 

  • A dish cooked by stewing. 

  • A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion. 

  • A steward or stewardess on an airplane or boat. 

  • A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating. 

  • An artificial bed of oysters. 

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