01 n. A thief.
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A thief.[Obs.]“Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies.” — J. Fleteher.
Entry
6 senses · 2 variants
Webster, 1913
Fury
02 n. Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
pl.
Furies ((#))
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Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.“Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired.” — Sir P. Sidney.
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2.
Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.“I do oppose my patience to his fury.” — Shak.
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pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra; the Erinyes or Eumenides.(Greek Myth.)“The Furies, they said, are attendants on justice, and if the sun in heaven should transgress his path would punish him.” — Emerson.
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One of the Parcæ, or Fates, esp. Atropos.[R.]“Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.” — Milton.
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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.