Fury

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A Thief.

II. Fury ·noun One of the Parcae, or Fates, ·esp. Atropos.

III. Fury ·noun Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.

IV. Fury ·noun A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.

V. Fury ·noun ·pl (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.

VI. Fury ·noun Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage;

— sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.

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