Stark \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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Stark \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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Stark \Stark\, v. t. To stiffen. [R.]

If horror have not starked your limbs. --H. Taylor.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)