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3. A stark, moss-trooping Scot.Sir W. Scott. Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer.Beau. & Fl. He pronounces the citation stark nonsense.Collier. Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric.Selden. Stark Held him strangled in his arms till he was stark dead.Fuller. Strip your sword stark naked.Shak. 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. Stark If horror have not starked your limbs.H. Taylor. |
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