4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fury \Fu"ry\, n. [L. fur.]
A thief. [Obs.]
Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. --J.
Fleteher.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fury
n 1: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman
scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: {rage},
{madness}]
2: state of violent mental agitation [syn: {craze}, {delirium},
{frenzy}, {hysteria}]
3: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's
violence" [syn: {ferocity}, {fierceness}, {furiousness}, {vehemence},
{violence}, {wildness}]
4: (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters
(usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals
[syn: {Eumenides}, {Erinyes}]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Fury
as attributed to God, is a figurative expression for dispensing
afflictive judgments (Lev. 26:28; Job 20:23; Isa. 63:3; Jer.
4:4; Ezek. 5:13; Dan. 9:16; Zech. 8:2).