Verb. (common).—1. To sport; to tease; to spree (q.v.).
1836. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, ii. 200. Don’t lark with the
watch, or annoy the police.
1847. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, ii. xxxi. Payne was a staid English
maid and personal attendant upon Mrs. Osborne, to whom the courier,
as in duty bound, paid court, and whom Georgy used to lark
dreadfully with accounts of German robbers and ghosts.