explain vs snow

explain

verb
  • To make something plain or intelligible. 

  • To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of. 

  • To give a valid excuse for past behavior. 

snow

verb
  • To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information. 

  • To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards. 

  • To have snow fall from the sky. 

noun
  • The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation. 

  • The moving pattern of random dots displayed on a television, etc., when no transmission signal is being received. 

  • marine snow 

  • A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted. 

  • A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water. 

  • Cocaine. 

  • Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid. 

  • A shade of the color white. 

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