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