Cark n.  A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry. [Archaic.]
    His heavy head, devoid of careful cark.   --Spenser.
    Fling cark and care aside.   --Motherwell.
    Freedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion.   --R. D. Blackmore.


 Cark v. i. To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubled in mind; to worry or grieve. [R.]


 Cark, v. t. To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry. [R.]
    Nor can a man, independently . . . of God's blessing, care and cark himself one penny richer.   --South.

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 cark
      v : disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or
          alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her
          father was seriously ill" [syn: perturb, unhinge, disquiet,
           trouble, distract, disorder]