Scarecrow
Pronunciation : Scare"crow`
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 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. (Zo?l.)
Defn: The black tern. [Prov. Eng.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913