Cark (kärk), v. i. To be
careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubled in mind; to worry or
grieve. [R.] Beau. & Fl.
Cark (kärk), 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.]
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. 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.