Scarecrow

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scarecrow \Scare"crow`\, n.
     1. Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from
        cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
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              A scarecrow set to frighten fools away. --Dryden.


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     2. A person clad in rags and tatters.
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              No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march
              with them through Coventry, that's flat. --Shak.
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     3. (Zool.) The black tern. [Prov. Eng.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  scarecrow
       n : an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from
           seeds [syn: {straw man}, {strawman}, {bird-scarer}, {scarer}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  73 Moby Thesaurus words for "scarecrow":
     Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf-man, baboon, bag, blemish, blot, bogey,
     bogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear, bust, carving, dog, doll, dolly, dummy,
     eyesore, fantoccini, fee-faw-fum, figure, figurehead, figurine,
     fright, frightener, gargoyle, ghost, ghoul, gingerbread man, hag,
     harridan, hobgoblin, holy terror, horror, incubus, lay figure,
     man of straw, manikin, mannequin, marionette, mess, model, monster,
     monstrosity, monument, nightmare, no beauty, ogre, ogress, phantom,
     portrait bust, puppet, revenant, scarebabe, scarer, sculpture,
     sight, snowman, specter, statuary, statue, statuette, succubus,
     tatterdemalion, teratism, terror, ugly duckling, vampire,
     wax figure, waxwork, werewolf, witch, wood carving