Syn. — Deficiency; lack; want; penury; dearth; rareness; rarity; infrequency.
SCARD
Scard, n.
Defn: A shard or fragment. [Obs.]
SCARE Scare, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scared; p. pr. & vb. n. Scaring.] Etym: [OE. skerren, skeren, Icel. skirra to bar, prevent, skirrask to shun , shrink from; or fr. OE. skerre, adj., scared, Icel. skjarr; both perhaps akin to E. sheer to turn.]
Defn: To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.
The noise of thy crossbow Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is
lost. Shak.
To scare away, to drive away by frightening.
— To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game.
[Slang]
Syn.
— To alarm; frighten; startle; affright; terrify.
SCARE
Scare, n.
Defn: Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake. [Colloq.]
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.