Fury
Fury , noun
[Latin fur.]
A thief. [Obsolete]
Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies.
Fury (#) , noun
[Latin furia, from furere to rage: compare French furie. Compare Furor.]
1.
Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired.
2.
Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
Fury of the wind.
I do oppose my patience to his fury.
3.
(Greek Mythology) pl. (Greek Mythology) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megara; 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.
4.
One of the Parca, or Fates, esp. Atropos. [Rare]
Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.
5.
A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.