Crossword clues for scarecrow
scarecrow
- "The Wizard of Oz" character
- Hay dummy?
- Field guardian
- Field guard
- Cornfield guardian
- Role in a 1939 classic
- Paper tiger of a sort
- One who can be patched together from the letters added to the theme answers
- October 31 costume
- Memorable Ray Bolger role
- Jelly-legged traveler to Oz
- Effigy in a field
- Crop protector
- Crop cop
- Cornfield guard
- Cornfield "guard"
- Brain seeker of film
- Produce preserver
- Its purpose is frightening
- With 36-Across, two things on a farm
- Stuffed figure in a cornfield
- An effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds
- "Oz" role
- Cornfield protector
- Ray Bolger film role
- Mark with sorrow, keeping Catholic back from crop protector
- Effigy for frightening off birds
- Singular boast about keeping pest controller
- Nurse carrying cocaine welcomed by female model
- Farm effigy
- He doesn't have to be smart to fool the birds
- Farm sight
- Emerald City visitor
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scarecrow \Scare"crow`\, n.
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Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
A scarecrow set to frighten fools away.
--Dryden. -
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. (Zo["o]l.) The black tern. [Prov. Eng.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from scare (v.) + crow (n.). Earliest reference is to a person employed to scare birds. Meaning "device of straw and cloth in grotesque resemblance of a man, set up in a grain field or garden to frighten crows," is implied by 1580s; hence "gaunt, ridiculous person" (1590s). An older name for such a thing was shewel. Shoy-hoy apparently is another old word for a straw-stuffed scarecrow (Cobbett began using it as a political insult in 1819 and others picked it up; OED defines it as "one who scares away birds from a sown field," and says it is imitative of their cry). Also fray-boggard (1530s).
Wiktionary
n. 1 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. 2 (context figuratively pejorative English) A tall, thin, awkward person. 3 (context figurative English) Anything that appears terrifying but offers no danger. 4 A person clad in rags and tatters. 5 (context UK dialect English) A bird, the black tern. vb. (context transitive English) To splay rigidly outward, like the arms of a scarecrow.
WordNet
n. an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds [syn: straw man, strawman, bird-scarer, scarer]
Wikipedia
The Scarecrow (Dr. Jonathan Crane) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an adversary of the superhero Batman. The character first appeared in World's Finest Comics #3 (September 1941) and was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. A professor of psychology and psychiatry, he uses a variety of fear-enhancing drugs, toxins, and psychological warfare tactics to exploit the fears and phobias of his adversaries. Scarecrow is one of Batman's most enduring enemies, and belongs to the collective of adversaries that make up his rogues gallery.
Although he only made two appearances in the Golden Age of Comic Books, the character was revived during the Silver Age of Comic Books by writer Gardner Fox and artist Sheldon Moldoff in the pages of Batman #189 (February 1967) and has since become a staple Batman villain. The Scarecrow has been featured in various forms of media, such as feature films, television series and video games.
The character has been voiced by Henry Polic II and Jeffery Combs in the DC animated universe, and by Dino Andrade and John Noble in the Batman: Arkham series. His live-action portrayals include Cillian Murphy in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, and Charlie Tahan in the television series Gotham. In 2009, the Scarecrow was ranked as IGN's 58th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.
A scarecrow is a device to discourage birds from disturbing crops.
Scarecrow(s) may also refer to:
Scarecrow is the fifth Matthew Reilly novel, and the third to feature the main character Captain Shane Schofield, USMC. It was released in 2003.
Scarecrow is a 1973 road movie starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino.
The Scarecrow (Ebenezer Laughton) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Scarecrow is a 2002 direct-to-video horror film B movie, directed by French director Emmanuel Itier. It stars B movie scream queen Tiffany Shepis and Tim Young as Lester among others, including director and cofounder of Oingo Boingo Richard Elfman. The film is described as "so bad it's good", due to its poor acting, writing, and overall story.
Scarecrow is the eighth studio album by American country pop artist Garth Brooks. It was released on November 13, 2001, and debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, and the Top Country Albums chart. It has been certified 5× platinum RIAA and was named Best Selling Album at the 2002 Canadian Country Music Association Awards. It was the last album by Brooks before his thirteen-year hiatus.
"Scarecrow" is a single from Melissa Etheridge's 1999 album, Breakdown.
The Scarecrow is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum and illustrator W.W. Denslow. In his first appearance, the Scarecrow reveals that he lacks a brain and desires above all else to have one. In reality, he is only two days old and merely ignorant. Throughout the course of the novel, he demonstrates that he already has the brains he seeks and is later recognized as "the wisest man in all of Oz," although he continues to credit the Wizard for them. He is, however, wise enough to know his own limitations and all too happy to hand the rulership of Oz, passed to him by the Wizard, to Princess Ozma, to become one of her trusted advisors, though he typically spends more time playing games than advising.
Scarecrow is the eighth album by John Mellencamp. Released in September 1985, it peaked at #2 on the U.S. chart behind Heart's comeback album, Heart. The remastered version was released May 24, 2005 on Mercury/Island/UMe and includes one bonus track.
This album contained three Top 10 hits, a record for a Mellencamp album: " R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.," which peaked at #2 in the U.S.; " Lonely Ol' Night," which peaked at #6; and "Small Town," which also peaked at #6. "Lonely Ol' Night" also peaked at #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, his second chart-topping single on this chart.
In 1989, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Scarecrow #95 on its list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s, saying: "Scarecrow consolidated the band's rugged, roots-rock thrash and the ongoing maturation of Mellencamp's lyrics."
Rolling Stone also reported that band spent a month in rehearsals, playing a hundred rock and roll songs from the Sixties before going into the studio. According to the record's producer, Don Gehman, the idea was to "learn all these devices from the past and use them in a new way with John's arrangements."
The overall theme of the album is the fading of the American dream in the face of corporate greed. Rolling Stone wrote that songs such as "Face of the Nation," "Minutes to Memories" and "Small Town" have a "bittersweet, reflective tone."
Scarecrow, historically the J.J. Cohn Estate, is a California wine producer. The estate is located in Rutherford, CA, within the Rutherford AVA in the Napa Valley AVA zone.
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, the scarecrow is a type of fictional monster.
Scarecrow, in comics, may refer to:
- Scarecrow (DC Comics), comic book villain in the Batman series by DC Comics
- Scarecrow (Marvel Comics), villain from Marvel Comics who fought heroes such as Spider-Man and Ghost Rider
- Straw Man (comics), Marvel Comics supernatural hero originally named Scarecrow
Scarecrow ( or Chuchelo) is a 1984 Soviet drama film about bullying directed by Rolan Bykov.
Scarecrow was the third studio album by Christian rock band Decyfer Down, which it was released on August 27, 2013 by Fair Trade Services record label, and it was produced by Paul Ebersold with Seth Mosley. The album has achieved positive critical attention, and has seen chart successes.
Scarecrow is a 2013 Syfy Pictures original horror film directed by Sheldon Wilson. Wilson also directed two other Syfy original films: Carny (2009) and Mothman (2010). The film premiered on Syfy October 19, 2013 and the DVD was released on February 25, 2014. It is the 25th film of the Maneater Series.
Scarecrow is an American heavy metal band from New York, formed in 1989. The band was founded and guided by former Twisted Sister guitarist Eddie Ojeda and enjoyed limited success in the USA during the explosion of hair metal in the late '80s. Scarecrow released five studio albums to date.
Usage examples of "scarecrow".
This ballet, so sympathetically described by Jenny to her friend Harry, this ballet in three acts, so meticulously rehearsed, this sumptuously staged ballet -- Haseloff in person had designed noise-making mechanisms and button-spitting automata -- this scarecrow ballet was never to open.
How scarecrow outdoes scarecrow by a scarecrow head, how scarecrows keep bettering their time at elevating scarecrow crosses, how they overcome barbed-wire entanglements, not with old-fashioned wire cutters but by eating them up, barbs and all, then evacuate them barbless in scarecrow fashion, deserves to be recorded on charts, and recorded it is.
One might suppose that only scarecrows could knot themselves so inextricably, that only scarecrows would have the power to crawl into their own viscera, that scarecrows alone could give the subjunctive body within and clothing without.
But since -- according to the statutes -- the scarecrow mirrors the image of man, there must be similar walking subjunctives on the sunlit surface of the earth.
That was the day on which Dame Beatrice interviewed the schoolboys and established that they had been responsible for rigging up the scarecrows with the smocks they had found, had added the swingle, ignored the card of buttons and had seen neither the man-trap nor the doll.
The scribe, who was lanky as a scarecrow, pallid from working indoors, and habitually terse, wanted to melt into a shell like a snail and politely close the door behind him.
During a brief descent -- with a double stroke of the bell, the trammer announces the pit bottom, where lies the fill level and hence also the hope that hell may be exhausted and ascent decided upon -- Matern, wedged into the cage between director and foreman with dog, is informed that the mobile scarecrow fragments he has just seen have recently been in great demand, especially in the Argentine and in Canada, where the wide expanse of the wheatfields necessitates echeloned scarecrows.
Her elbow nearly toppled the mountain of books, but Miss Sarah Jane, for all her resemblance to an understuffed scarecrow, moved fast.
One drink led to another, and by the time the story of the assaulted scarecrow had been thrice repeated at the special request of Miss Turner, who was able to extract from it at each telling fresh sources of enjoyment, the applejack had long dissociated itself from the bottle.
Forest continue to be felled one by one -- to make matters worse, it would have been a good beechnut year -- Eddi Amsel in his villa on Steffensweg builds the fourth life-size scarecrow: a black mobile twelve-legged dog.
I let them out through the Eleventh Gate into the void of our plastic-yard-sheet world, and deep in my flesh-strips I almost felt tears turn to rain as three things wandered away, two Boxheads and between them a weird plump scarecrow, dazed, blinking and, I suspected, sore afraid.
But when he saw the two earringed women, one tall and scrawny as a scarecrow, the other brawny as a bare-armed fish-wife, both as brown as gipsies.
Since Lau, like many peasants on the Island, grew either the Epp or the Kujave variety, both beardless and consequently an easy prey for birds, the scarecrows had ample opportunity to prove their worth.
Curtis had found her at sunset, looking like a scarecrow with only her lower masts standing and a few scraps of canvas aboard, far away right under the land, creeping in with her tattered forecourse alone.
Amsel was called in the villages -- building materials into the open: four scarecrows in process of construction, bundles of roofing laths and flower stakes.