\Scare"crow`\, n.
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["o]l.) The black tern. [Prov. Eng.]