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Furies \Fu"ries\, n. pl.
See {Fury}, 3.
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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.
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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. "Fury of the wind." --Shak.
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I do oppose my patience to his fury. --Shak.
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3. pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto,
and Meg[ae]ra; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
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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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4. One of the Parc[ae], or Fates, esp. Atropos. [R.]
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Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life. --Milton.
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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}.
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