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Webster 1913 Edition
Scarecrow
Scare′crowˊ
,Noun.
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. Shakespeare
3.
(Zool.)
The black tern.
[Prov. Eng.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Scarecrow
SCARECROW
,Noun.
1.
Any frightful thing set up to frighten crows or other fowls from corn fields; hence, any thing terrifying without danger; a vain terror.A scarecrow set to frighten fools away.
2.
A fowl of the sea gull kind; the black gull.