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 Megæra; 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 Parcæ, 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.
Fu"ry (?), n. [L. fur.]
A thief. [Obs.]
Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies.
J.
Fleteher.
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