Cark
n.
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A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry. [Archaic.]
His heavy head, devoid of careful cark.
Fling cark and care aside.
Freedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion.
Cark
v. i.
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To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubled in mind; to worry or grieve. [R.]
Cark
v. t.
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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.