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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A crude image or effigy of a person set up in a field to scare birds away from growing crops.
  2. n. Something frightening but not dangerous.
  3. n. A gaunt or haggard person.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A figure of straw or clouts, made in grotesque semblance of a man, set in a grain-field or a garden to frighten off crows and other birds from the crops; hence, anything set up or intended to frighten or keep off intruders, or to terrify the foolish.
  2. n. A person so poor and so meanly clad as to resemble a scarecrow.
  3. n. The black tern, Hydrochelidon fissipes.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating seeds or crops planted there.
  2. n. figuratively, pejorative A tall, thin, awkward person.
  3. n. figuratively Anything that appears terrifying but offers no danger.
  4. n. A person clad in rags and tatters.
  5. n. UK, dialect A bird, the black tern.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
  2. n. A person clad in rags and tatters.
  3. n. (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The black tern.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds

Etymologies

  1. scare + crow (Wiktionary)

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