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Furies : \Fu"ries\, n. pl.
See Fury, 3.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Fury \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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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