SCARECROW

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.
n.

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.
n.

The black tern. [Prov. Eng.]


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