1. [adv]  completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open"
2. [adj]  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"
3. [adj]  complete or extreme; "stark poverty"; "a stark contrast"
4. [adj]  severely simple; "a stark interior"

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1. \Stark\, a. [Compar. {Starker}; 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.
            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. [Obs.]
            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. [Obs.] ``In starke stours.'' [i.
      e., in fierce combats]. --Chaucer.
   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.
   

2. \Stark\, adv.
   Wholly; entirely; absolutely; quite; as, stark mind. --Shak.
         Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead.
                                                  --Fuller.
   {Stark naked}, wholly naked; quite bare.
            Strip your sword stark naked.         --Shak.
   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.
   

3. \Stark\, v. t.
   To stiffen. [R.]
         If horror have not starked your limbs.   --H. Taylor.