blister vs ether

blister

verb
  • To criticise severely. 

  • To break out in blisters. 

  • To sear after blaching. 

  • To raise blisters on. 

  • To have a blister form. 

noun
  • A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities. 

  • A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface. 

  • An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate. 

  • A bubble, as on a painted surface. 

  • Hyponyms: bulla, vesicle, vesicula. 

  • A cause of annoyance. 

  • A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection. 

  • A swelling on a plant. 

  • Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine. 

ether

verb
  • To viciously humiliate or insult. 

noun
  • The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness. 

  • Starting fluid. 

  • Diethyl ether (C₄H₁₀O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic. 

  • The medium breathed by human beings; the air. 

  • A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura. 

  • Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups. 

  • The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace. 

  • Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: a substance once thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy; its existence was disproved by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment and the theory of relativity propounded by Albert Einstein (1879–1955). 

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