Star"ing*ly (?), adv. With a staring look.
Stark (?), a. [Compar. Starker (?); superl. Starkest.] [OE. stark
stiff, strong, AS. stearc; akin to OS. starc strong, D. sterk, OHG.
starc, starah, G. & Sw. stark, Dan. stærk, Icel. sterkr, Goth.
gastaúrknan to become dried up, Lith. strëgti to stiffen, to freeze.
Cf. Starch, a. & n.] 1. Stiff; rigid. Chaucer.
Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark.
Spenser.
His heart gan wax as stark as marble stone.
Spenser.
Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff Under the hoofs of vaunting
enemies.
Shak.
The north is not so stark and cold.
B. Jonson.