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scarecrow
(encz) | scarecrow,strašácký adj: web |
scarecrow
(encz) | scarecrow,strašák n: Zdeněk Brož |
scarecrow
(encz) | scarecrow,strašidlo n: web |
Scarecrow
(gcide) | 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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scarecrow
(wn) | 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] |
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scarecrowish
(encz) | scarecrowish, adj: |
Scarecrow
(gcide) | 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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scarecrowish
(wn) | scarecrowish
adj 1: resembling a scarecrow in being thin and ragged; "a
forlorn scarecrowish figure" |
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