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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Stark \Stark\ (st[aum]rk), adv. Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mad. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead. --Fuller. [1913 Webster] {Stark naked}, wholly naked; quite bare. [1913 Webster] Strip your sword stark naked. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. staerk, 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. [1913 Webster] 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] 2. Complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Consider the stark security The common wealth is in now. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] 3. Strong; vigorous; powerful. [1913 Webster] A stark, moss-trooping Scot. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] 4. Severe; violent; fierce. [Obs.] "In starke stours" [i. e., in fierce combats]. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. Mere; sheer; gross; entire; downright. [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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Stark \Stark\, v. t. To stiffen. [R.] [1913 Webster] If horror have not starked your limbs. --H. Taylor. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: stark adv 1: completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open" 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}, {stark}, {stern}] 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"; "the unadulterated truth" [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)}, {unadulterated}] 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}] From Swedish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-swe-eng]: stark strong From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: stark /ʃtark/ heavy; intense; strong