01 n. Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
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Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.“A scarecrow set to frighten fools away.” — Dryden.
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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.
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The black tern.(Zool.) [Prov. Eng.]