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Scarecrow


SCARECROW, noun [scarce and crow.]

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.