Cark

Definition of Cark

Pronunciation: kärk

n.	1.	A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry. 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.
v. i.	1.	To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubled in mind; to worry or grieve.
v. t.	1.	To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry. Nor can a man, independently . . . of God's blessing, care and cark himself one penny richer. - South.

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