fess vs shrill

fess

adj
  • Lively; active; strong. 

  • Of animals, bad-tempered, fierce. 

  • Proud; conceited. 

verb
  • To confess; to admit. 

noun
  • A horizontal band across the middle of the shield. 

shrill

adj
  • Fierce, loud, strident. 

  • Sharp or keen to the senses. 

  • Having a shrill voice. 

  • High-pitched and piercing. 

verb
  • To make a shrill noise. 

noun
  • A shrill sound. 

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