dare vs scout

dare

verb
  • To terrify; to daunt. 

  • To have enough courage (to do something). 

  • To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to 

  • To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them. 

  • To defy or challenge (someone to do something) 

noun
  • The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness. 

  • A challenge to prove courage. 

  • In the game truth or dare, the choice to perform a dare set by the other players. 

  • A small fish, the dace 

  • Defiance; challenge. 

scout

verb
  • To scoff. 

  • To reject with contempt. 

  • To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement. 

  • To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search. 

  • To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout. 

noun
  • A fighter aircraft. 

  • Term of address for a man or boy. 

  • An act of scouting or reconnoitering. 

  • A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States. 

  • A person employed to monitor rivals' activities in the petroleum industry. 

  • A fielder in a game for practice. 

  • A housekeeper or domestic cleaner, generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Oxford University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern bedder at Cambridge University. 

  • A preliminary image that allows the technician to make adjustments before the actual diagnostic images. 

  • The guillemot. 

  • A person who assesses and/or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team. 

  • A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend (usually several) students in a variety of ways, including cleaning; generally equivalent to a gyp at Cambridge University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin. 

  • A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground. 

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