castoff vs disperse

castoff

adj
  • discarded, rejected. 

noun
  • Something that has been rejected or discarded; a reject. 

disperse

adj
  • Scattered or spread out. 

verb
  • To break up and disappear; to dissipate. 

  • To scatter in different directions. 

  • To disseminate. 

  • To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract. 

  • To distribute throughout. 

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