n. 1. Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger. [ 1913 Webster ]
A scarecrow set to frighten fools away. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. A person clad in rags and tatters. [ 1913 Webster ]
No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march with them through Coventry, that's flat. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. (Zool.) The black tern. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]