cost vs hairline

cost

noun
  • A cottise. 

  • Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic. 

  • A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur. 

  • Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used. 

verb
  • To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of. 

  • To require to be borne or suffered; to cause. 

  • To calculate or estimate a price. 

  • To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price. 

hairline

noun
  • A very thin fissure. 

  • A fishing line made from hair. 

  • The line along one's forehead where hair starts growing. 

  • A very thin line in writing, drawing, or typography. 

adj
  • very thin, as thin as a hair 

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