Category: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. (zoöl.)

Defn: the black tern. [prov. Eng.]