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Stark nought, adj. [e.m.E. starke nought (a1543); Stark adv. 2.] Entirely ? worthless, ? unavailable. —1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. (1681) i 5.
When trouts and Abercorn muscles Are stark nought … It was in Januar or December