buckram vs smooth

buckram

verb
  • To stiffen with or as if with buckram. 

noun
  • A coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise. 

  • A plant, Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic. 

smooth

verb
  • To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure; to press, to flatten. 

  • To make smooth or even. 

  • To make straightforward or easy. 

  • To stroke; especially to stroke an animal's fur. 

  • To calm or palliate. 

  • To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise. 

adv
  • Smoothly. 

adj
  • Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s domain. 

  • Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; fluent. 

  • Natural; unconstrained. 

  • Not grainy; having an even texture. 

  • Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents. 

  • Involuntary and non-striated. 

  • That factors completely into small prime numbers. 

  • Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough. 

  • Unbroken. 

  • Lacking marked aspiration. 

  • Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated. 

  • Placid, calm. 

  • Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent. 

  • Suave; sophisticated. 

  • Bland; glib. 

noun
  • The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure. 

  • Something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily. 

  • A domestic animal having a smooth coat. 

  • A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain. 

  • A smoothing action. 

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