Definitions for: Fury


[n] the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"
[n] a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage"
[n] (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals
[n] state of violent mental agitation



Webster (1913) Definition: Fu"ry, n. [L. fur.]
A thief. [Obs.]

Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. --J.
Fleteher.


Fu"ry, n.; pl. Furies. [L. furia, fr. furere to rage:
cf. F. furie. Cf. Furor.]
1. Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or
enthusiasm.

Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired.
--Sir P.
Sidney.

2. Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied
to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity;
violence. ``Fury of the wind.'' --Shak.

I do oppose my patience to his fury. --Shak.

3. pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto,
and Meg[ae]ra; the Erinyes or Eumenides.

The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice,
and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path
would punish him. --Emerson.

4. One of the Parc[ae], or Fates, esp. Atropos. [R.]

Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And
slits the thin-spun life. --Milton.

5. A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a
virago; a termagant.

Syn: Anger; indignation; resentment; wrath; ire; rage;
vehemence; violence; fierceness; turbulence; madness;
frenzy. See Anger.

Synonyms: craze, delirium, Erinyes, Eumenides, ferocity, fierceness, frenzy, furiousness, hysteria, madness, rage, vehemence, violence, wildness

See Also: Alecto, anger, choler, intensity, intensiveness, ire, lividity, mania, manic disorder, Megaera, mythical creature, mythical monster, nympholepsy, Tisiphone, wrath

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