a.
Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
His heart gan wax as stark as marble stone. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff
Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
The north is not so stark and cold. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
Consider the stark security
The common wealth is in now. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
A stark, moss-trooping Scot. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]
He pronounces the citation stark nonsense. Collier. [ 1913 Webster ]
Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric. Selden. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite;
Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
Stark naked,
Strip your sword stark naked. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To stiffen. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
If horror have not starked your limbs. H. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a stark manner; stiffly; strongly. [ 1913 Webster ]
Its onward force too starkly pent
In figure, bone, and lineament. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being stark. [ 1913 Webster ]