'Cark' definitions:
Definition of 'cark'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Cark'
From: GCIDE
- Cark \Cark\ (k[aum]rk), v. i. To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubled in mind; to worry or grieve. [R.] --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cark'
From: GCIDE
- Cark \Cark\, v. t. To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Nor can a man, independently . . . of God's blessing, care and cark himself one penny richer. --South. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cark'
From: GCIDE
- Cark \Cark\ (k[aum]rk), n. [OE. cark, fr. a dialectic form of F. charge; cf. W. carc anxiety, care, Arm karg charge, burden. See Charge, and cf. Cargo.] A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry. [Archaic.] [1913 Webster]
- His heavy head, devoid of careful cark. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Fling cark and care aside. --Motherwell. [1913 Webster]
- Freedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion. --R. D. Blackmore. [1913 Webster]