English-Thai Dictionary
scarecrow
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
SCARECROW
n.[scarce and crow. ] 1. Any frightful thing set up to frighten crows or other fowls from corn fields; hence, any thing terrifying without danger; a vain terror.
A scarecrow set to frighten fools away.
2. A fowl of the sea gull kind; the black gull.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
SCARECROW
SCARECROW 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. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The black tern. [Prov. Eng. ]
New American Oxford Dictionary
scarecrow
scare crow |ˈske (ə )rˌkrō ˈskerkroʊ | ▶noun an object, usually made to resemble a human figure, set up to scare birds away from a field where crops are growing. • informal a person who is very badly dressed, odd-looking, or thin. • archaic an object of baseless fear.
Oxford Dictionary
scarecrow
scare |crow |ˈskɛːkrəʊ | ▶noun an object made to resemble a human figure, set up to scare birds away from a field where crops are growing. • informal a person who is very badly dressed, odd-looking, or thin. • archaic an object of baseless fear.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
scarecrow
sc á re cr ò w 名詞 C 1 かかし .2 こけおどし .3 ぼろぼろの服を着た人, 見すぼらしい人 ; やせた人 .
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