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Stark

Stark (stark)
a.(?)
Stark
[Compar. Starker (?); superl. Starkest.] [OE. stark stiff, strong, AS. stearc; akin to OS. starc strong, D. sterk, OHG. starc, starah, G. *** Sw. stark<
  1. Stiff] rigid.
    Chaucer.

    Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark. Spenser.

    His heart gan wax as stark as marble stone. Spenser.

    Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff
    Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies.     Shak.

    The north is not so stark and cold. B. Jonson.

  2. Complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire.
    [Obs.]

    Consider the stark security
    The common wealth is in now.     B. Jonson.

  3. Strong; vigorous; powerful.

    A stark, moss-trooping Scot. Sir W. Scott.

    Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer. Beau. *** Fl.

  4. Severe] violent; fierce.
    [Obs.] "In starke stours." [i. e., in fierce combats]. Chaucer.
  5. Mere; sheer; gross; entire; downright.

    He pronounces the citation stark nonsense. Collier.

    Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric. Selden.

Stark

Stark (stark)
adv.(?)
Stark
  1. Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mind.
    Shak.

    Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead. Fuller.

    Stark naked, wholly naked; quite bare.

    Strip your sword stark naked. Shak.

    * According to Professor Skeat, "stark-naked" is derived from steort-naked, or start-naked, literally tail-naked, and hence wholly naked. If this etymology be true the preferable form is stark-naked.

Stark

Stark (stark)
v. t.
Stark
  1. To stiffen.
    [R.]

    If horror have not starked your limbs. H. Taylor.













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