STARK
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Stark (st&ä;rk), a. [Compar. Starker (-&etilde_;r); superl. Starkest.] [OE. stark stiff, strong, AS. stearc; akin to OS. starc strong, D. sterk, OHG. starc, starah, G. & Sw. stark, Dan. stærk, Icel. sterkr, Goth. gastaúrknan to become dried up, Lith. strëgti to stiffen, to freeze. Cf. Starch, a. & n.] 1. Stiff; rigid. Chaucer.
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Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark.
Spenser.
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His heart gan wax as stark as marble stone.
Spenser.
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Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff
Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies.
Shak.
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The north is not so stark and cold.
B. Jonson.
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2. Complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire. [Obs.]
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Consider the stark security
The common wealth is in now.
B. Jonson.
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3. Strong; vigorous; powerful.
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A stark, moss-trooping Scot.
Sir W. Scott.
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Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer.
Beau. & Fl.
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4. Severe; violent; fierce. [Obs.] “In starke stours” [i. e., in fierce combats]. Chaucer.
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5. Mere; sheer; gross; entire; downright.
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He pronounces the citation stark nonsense.
Collier.
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Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric.
Selden.
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Stark (st&ä;rk), adv. Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mad. Shak.
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Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead.
Fuller.
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Stark naked, wholly naked; quite bare.
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Strip your sword stark naked.
Shak.
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&hand_; 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.
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Stark, v. t. To stiffen. [R.]
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If horror have not starked your limbs.
H. Taylor.
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