ether vs rag

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). 

rag

verb
  • To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter. 

  • To dance to ragtime music. 

  • To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time. 

  • To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner. 

  • To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag. 

  • To become tattered. 

  • To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze. 

  • To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone. 

  • To break (ore) into lumps for sorting. 

noun
  • A poor, low-ranking kicker. 

  • A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising. 

  • A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin. 

  • A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone. 

  • A ragtime song, dance or piece of music. 

  • A curtain of various kinds. 

  • A sail, or any piece of canvas. 

  • Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge. 

  • A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter. 

  • A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality. 

  • Tattered clothes. 

  • A ragged edge in metalworking. 

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