lowering vs lowery

lowering

adj
  • Dark and menacing. 

  • Lurking, skulking, menacing. 

  • That lowers or frowns. 

noun
  • The act of something being lowered. 

lowery

adj
  • dark and gloomy; threatening; lowering 

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