furies

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Furies \Fu"ries\, n. pl. See Fury, 3. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired.— Sir P. Sidney.[1913 Webster]

2.Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence. "Fury of the wind." --Shak. [1913 Webster]

I do oppose my patience to his fury.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

3.pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Meg[ae]ra; the Erinyes or Eumenides. [1913 Webster]

The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him.— Emerson.[1913 Webster]

4.One of the Parc[ae], or Fates, esp. Atropos. [R.] [1913 Webster]

Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]