Hypertext Webster Gateway: "scarecrow"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Scarecrow \Scare"crow`\, n.
1. Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from
cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
A scarecrow set to frighten fools away. --Dryden.
2. A person clad in rags and tatters.
No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march
with them through Coventry, that's flat. --Shak.
3. (Zo["o]l.) The black tern. [Prov. Eng.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
scarecrow
n : an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from
seeds [syn: {strawman}, {bird-scarer}, {scarer}]
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