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Definition: Stark

Stark \Stark\ (st[aum]rk), a. [Compar. Starker (-[~e]r);
superl. Starkest.] [OE. stark stiff, strong, AS. stearc;
akin to OS. starc strong, D. sterk, OHG. starc, starah, G. &
Sw. stark, Dan. st[ae]rk, Icel. sterkr, Goth. gasta['u]rknan
to become dried up, Lith. str["e]gti 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 \Stark\ (st[aum]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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Note: 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 \Stark\, v. t.
To stiffen. [R.]
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If horror have not starked your limbs. --H. Taylor.
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Definition: stark

stark
adj 1: devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the
blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark
reality of the deadline" [syn: blunt, {crude(a)}, {stark(a)}]
2: severely simple; "a stark interior" [syn: austere, severe]
3: complete or extreme; "stark poverty"; "a stark contrast"
4: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative)
intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a
consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross
negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a
sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing
villain"; "utter nonsense" [syn: {arrant(a)}, {complete(a)},
{consummate(a)}, {double-dyed(a)}, {everlasting(a)}, {gross(a)},
{perfect(a)}, {pure(a)}, {sodding(a)}, {stark(a)}, {staring(a)},
{thoroughgoing(a)}, {utter(a)}]
5: providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills";
"barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high
Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark
landscape" [syn: bare, barren, bleak, desolate]

stark
adv : completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open"