From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Furies \Fu"ries\, noun pl. See {Fury}, 3.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fury \Fu"ry\, noun; 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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "Furies": Alecto, Fury, Megaera, Nemesis, Tisiphone, avenger, burning rage, furious rage, furor, fury, passion, rage, revanchist, tearing passion, the Erinyes, the Eumenides, the Furies, towering rage, vehemence, vindicator, violence
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