From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Cark \Cark\ (k[aum]rk), v. i.
To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubled in mind; to
worry or grieve. [R.] --Beau. & Fl.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Cark \Cark\, v. t.
To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry. [R.]
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Nor can a man, independently . . . of God's blessing,
care and cark himself one penny richer. --South.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.]
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His heavy head, devoid of careful cark. --Spenser.
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Fling cark and care aside. --Motherwell.
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Freedom from the cares of money and the cark of
fashion. --R. D.
Blackmore.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cark
v 1: 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}, {cark}, {distract}, {disorder}]
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