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scarecrow |
2 definitions found 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 1.6 [wn]: scarecrow n : an object in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds [syn: {strawman}]
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