Cark
Cark (kark) , noun
[Old English cark, from a dialectic form of French charge; compare Welsh carc anxiety, care, Arm karg charge, burden. See Charge, and compare Cargo.]
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 (kark) , intransitive verb
To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubled in mind; to worry or grieve. [Rare] — Beau. & Fl
Cark , transitive verb
To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry. [Rare]
Nor can a man, independently... of God's blessing, care and cark himself one penny richer.