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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FU'RY, n. [L. furor, furia, furo, to rage.]
1. A violent rushing; impetuous motion; as the fury of the winds.
2. Rage; a storm of anger; madness; turbulence.
I do oppose my patience to his fury.
3. Enthusiasm; heat of the mind.
4. In mythology, a deity; a goddess of vengeance; hence, a stormy turbulent, violent woman.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: fury, rage, madness]
2: state of violent mental agitation [syn: craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria]
3: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" [syn: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness]
4: (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals [syn: Fury, Eumenides, Erinyes]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural furies) Etymology: Middle English furie, from Latin furia, from furere to rage Date: 14th century 1. intense, disordered, and often destructive rage 2. a. capitalized any of the avenging deities in Greek mythology who torment criminals and inflict plagues b. an avenging spirit c. one who resembles an avenging spirit; especially a spiteful woman 3. extreme fierceness or violence 4. a state of inspired exaltation ; frenzy Synonyms: see anger

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 a wild and passionate anger, rage. b a fit of rage (in a blind fury). c impetuosity in battle etc. 2 violence of a storm, disease, etc. 3 (Fury) (usu. in pl.) (in Greek mythology) each of three goddesses sent from Tartarus to avenge crime, esp. against kinship. 4 an avenging spirit. 5 an angry or malignant woman, a virago. Phrases and idioms: like fury colloq. with great force or effect. Etymology: ME f. OF furie f. L furia f. furere be mad

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fury Fu"ry, n. [L. fur.] A thief. [Obs.] Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. --J. Fleteher.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Fury is violent or very strong anger. She screamed, her face distorted with fury and pain. = rage

Easton's Bible Dictionary

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).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

fu'-ri (alastor, "not to forget," "significant of revenge"):

Occurs only in /APC 2Macc 7:9 the King James Version, "Thou like a fury (the Revised Version (British and American) "Thou, miscreant") takest us out of this present life."

See also WRATH; FIERCENESS; ANGER.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Rage, frenzy, madness, furor, storm of anger. 2. Impetuosity, vehemence, fierceness, turbulence, headlong rush. 3. Goddess of Vengeance, avenging deity. 4. Vixen, virago, hag, shrew, termagant, beldam, Xantippe, turbulent woman.

Moby Thesaurus

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