noun. A crude image or effigy of a person set up in a field to scare birds away from growing crops.

noun. Something frightening but not dangerous.

noun. A gaunt or haggard person.

noun. A figure of straw or clouts, made in grotesque semblance of a man, set in a grain-field or a garden to frighten off crows and other birds from the crops; hence, anything set up or intended to frighten or keep off intruders, or to terrify the foolish.

noun. A person so poor and so meanly clad as to resemble a scarecrow.

noun. The black tern, Hydrochelidon fissipes.

noun. Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.

noun. A person clad in rags and tatters.

noun. The black tern.

noun. An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds from eating seeds or crops planted there.

noun. A tall, thin, awkward person.

noun. Anything that appears terrifying but offers no danger.

noun. A person clad in rags and tatters.

noun. A bird, the black tern.

noun. an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds

"The scarecrow is placed in a field, and there it could have remained."

bird-scarer  bogy  scarer  

effigy  image  simulacrum  

spectre  

Dracula  Frankenstein  Wolf-man  baboon  bag