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stark


1. Stiff; rigid. "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. "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. "In starke stours."

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)

Origin: OE. Stark stiff, strong, AS. Stearc; akin to OS. Starc strong, D. Sterk, OHG. Starc, starah, G. & Sw. Stark, Dan. Staerk, Icel. Sterkr, Goth. Gastaorknan to become dried up, Lith. Stregti to stiffen, to freeze.

Source: Websters Dictionary