furnish vs mete out

furnish

verb
  • To supply or give (something). 

  • To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment. 

  • To supply (somebody) with something. 

noun
  • Material used to create an engineered product. 

mete out

verb
  • To distribute something in portions; to apportion or dole out. 

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