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SCARECROW

1. Anything set up to frighten crows or another birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger. "A scarecrow set to frighten fools away." (Dryden) 2. A face clad in rags and tatters. "No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I will not march with them through Coventry, that's flat." (Shak) 3. The black tern. Source: Websters Vocabulary
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