Stark a. [Compar. Starker superl. Starkest.]
 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. [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].
 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.