appear vs dag

appear

verb
  • To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible. 

  • To come before the public. 

  • To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest. 

  • To bring into view. 

  • To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, etc.; to present oneself as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried. 

  • To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look. 

dag

verb
  • To be misty; to drizzle. 

  • To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation. 

  • To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags 

  • To skewer food, for roasting over a fire 

noun
  • A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung. 

  • A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground. 

  • A skewer. 

  • A misty shower; dew. 

  • A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire. 

  • The unbranched antler of a young deer. 

  • One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd. 

  • A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V. 

intj
  • Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier. 

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