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   Fury , n. [L. fur.] A thief. [Obs.]
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   Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies.
   J. Fleteher.
   
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   Fury, n.; pl. Furies . [L. furia, fr. furere to rage: cf. F. furie.  Cf. Furor.]
   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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   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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   pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra; 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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   One of the Parcæ, 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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   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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