sheen vs sprinkle

sheen

noun
  • Splendor; radiance; shininess. 

  • A thin layer of a substance (such as oil) spread on a solid or liquid surface. 

  • The letter ش in the Arabic script. 

verb
  • To shine; to glisten. 

adj
  • Beautiful, good-looking, attractive; radiant; shiny. 

sprinkle

noun
  • A light covering with a sprinkled substance. 

  • An aspersorium or utensil for sprinkling. 

  • A light rain shower. 

  • A small hard piece of sugar and starch, or chocolate, used to decorate cakes etc. 

verb
  • To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it. 

  • To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically. 

  • To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify. 

  • To rain very lightly outside. 

  • To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance). 

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