Thesaurus: scarecrow

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1. n. Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
2. n. A person clad in rags and tatters.
3. n. The black tern.
4. n. an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds
5. 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. (Zoöl.) The black tern. [Prov. Eng.]
6. The black tern. [Prov. Eng.]
7. n:100 n. an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds