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. Zool.
The black tern.
[Prov. Eng.]
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