rayless vs sooty

rayless

adj
  • Lacking florets. 

  • Lacking rays. 

  • Lightless, gloomy. 

sooty

adj
  • Soiled with soot 

  • Of the color of soot. 

  • Of, relating to, or producing soot. 

verb
  • To blacken or make dirty with soot. 

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