demean vs sidle

demean

noun
  • demesne. 

  • resources; means. 

verb
  • To debase; to lower; to degrade. 

  • To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a dataset). 

  • To mortify. 

  • To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate. 

sidle

noun
  • A furtive advance. 

  • A sideways movement. 

verb
  • In the intransitive sense often followed by up: to (cause something to) advance in a coy, furtive, or unobtrusive manner. 

  • To (cause something to) move sideways. 

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