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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

scarecrow
    n 1: an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from
         seeds [syn: scarecrow, straw man, strawman, bird-
         scarer, scarer]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Scarecrow \Scare"crow`\, n.
   1. Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from
      cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
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            A scarecrow set to frighten fools away. --Dryden.
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   2. A person clad in rags and tatters.
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            No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march
            with them through Coventry, that's flat. --Shak.
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   3. (Zool.) The black tern. [Prov. Eng.]
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Thesaurus Results for scarecrow:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf-man, baboon, bag, blemish, blot, bogey, bogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear, bust, carving, dog, doll, dolly, dummy, eyesore, fantoccini, fee-faw-fum, figure, figurehead, figurine, fright, frightener, gargoyle, ghost, ghoul, gingerbread man, hag, harridan, hobgoblin, holy terror, horror, incubus, lay figure, man of straw, manikin, mannequin, marionette, mess, model, monster, monstrosity, monument, nightmare, no beauty, ogre, ogress, phantom, portrait bust, puppet, revenant, scarebabe, scarer, sculpture, sight, snowman, specter, statuary, statue, statuette, succubus, tatterdemalion, teratism, terror, ugly duckling, vampire, wax figure, waxwork, werewolf, witch, wood carving

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