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Mere; sheer; gross; entire; downright. He pronounces the citation stark nonsense. Collier. Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric. Selden.

, or smothered. "A swelling discontent is apt to suffocate and strangle without passage." collier.

Being above the vulgar or common people. [R.] Collier.

Criminal; guilty. [Obs.] Collier.

e to laugh at you again. Denham . Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. Collier.

To supply with less than enough; to furnish insufficiently. Collier.

e or inferior proportions; small; poor. Scanty and underproportioned returns of civility. Collier.

n by picking out stitches; to take out, or undo, the stitches of; as, to unstitch a seam. Collier.

The total sales of coal from a colliery. [Eng.]

; spiritless. When a bold man is out of countenance, he makes a very wooden figure on it. Collier. His singing was, I confess, a little wooden. G. MacDonald. Wooden spoon. (a) (Cambridge University, Eng.) The last junior optime who takes a university degree, -- denoting one who is only fit to stay at home and stir porr…