brine vs congeal

brine

verb
  • To prepare and flavor food (especially meat) for cooking by soaking in a salt solution. 

  • To preserve food in a salt solution. 

noun
  • The sea or ocean; the water of the sea. 

  • Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling. 

congeal

verb
  • To coagulate, make curdled or semi-solid such as gel or jelly. 

  • To change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage. 

  • To become congealed, solidify. 

  • To make rigid or immobile. 

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