baste vs nutmeg

baste

noun
  • A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking. 

verb
  • To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. 

  • To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar. 

  • To coat over something. 

  • To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric. 

nutmeg

noun
  • The powdered seed, ready for use. 

  • A grey-brown colour. 

  • The playing of the ball between the legs of an opponent. 

  • An evergreen tree (Myristica fragrans) cultivated in the East Indies for its spicy seeds. 

  • A whole nutmeg seed. 

  • A small moth, Hadula trifolii, feeding on plants and native to the Northern Hemisphere. 

verb
  • To flavour with nutmeg. 

  • To play the ball between the legs of (an opponent). 

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