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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fury \Fu"ry\, noun [L. fur.] A thief. [Obs.]
Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. --J. Fleteher.
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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fury
noun
1: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: {rage}, {madness}]
2: state of violent mental agitation [syn: {craze}, {delirium}, {frenzy}, {hysteria}]
3: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" [syn: {ferocity}, {fierceness}, {furiousness}, {vehemence}, {violence}, {wildness}]
4: (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals [syn: {Eumenides}, {Erinyes}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
196 Moby Thesaurus words for "fury": Alecto, Jezebel, Mafioso, Megaera, Nemesis, Tartar, Tisiphone, Young Turk, abandon, acerbity, acrimony, agitation, amok, anger, ardency, ardor, asperity, attack, battle-ax, bear, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, bitch, bitch-kitty, bluster, bomber, brawl, broil, brouhaha, brute, burning rage, cacophony, cat, chaos, choler, common scold, commotion, convulsion, crank, craze, crosspatch, delirium, demon, devil, disturbance, dragon, ebullition, ecstasy, embroilment, excitement, fanaticism, feist, ferment, ferocity, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fever, fiend, fierceness, fire, fire and fury, fire-eater, firebrand, fishwife, fit, flap, fomentation, foofaraw, frenzy, fume, furious rage, furor, furore, fuss, goon, gorilla, grimalkin, grizzly bear, grouch, gunsel, gusto, hag, hardnose, heart, heartiness, heat, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhag, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, hubbub, hysteria, impassionedness, impetuosity, incendiary, indignation, infatuation, intoxication, ire, killer, liveliness, mad, mad dog, madcap, madness, mania, monster, mugger, murderous insanity, orgasm, orgy, overambitiousness, overanxiety, overanxiousness, overeagerness, overenthusiasm, overzealousness, pandemonium, paroxysm, passion, passionateness, psychokinesia, racket, rage, rancor, rapist, rapture, ravishment, relish, revolutionary, row, ruckus, rumpus, savage, savagery, savor, scold, seizure, she-devil, she-wolf, shrew, siren, sorehead, soul, spasm, spirit, spitfire, storminess, tearing passion, tempestuousness, termagant, terror, terrorist, the Erinyes, the Eumenides, the Furies, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy, towering rage, transport, tumult, tumultuousness, turbulence, turmoil, ugly customer, uproar, upset, vehemence, verve, violence, violent, virago, vixen, warmth, warmth of feeling, wild beast, wildcat, wildness, witch, wolf, wrath, zeal, zealotism, zealotry, zealousness
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Fury as attributed to God, is a figurative expression for dispensing afflictive judgments (Lev. 26:28; Job 20:23; Isa. 63:3; Jer. 4:4; Ezek. 5:13; Dan. 9:16; Zech. 8:2).
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