furies
plural of fury
• rufies, surfie
Furies
(Greek god) synonym of Erinyes; the goddesses of vengeance.
Hyponyms: Alecto, Megaera, Tisiphone
• rufies, surfie
Source: Wiktionary
Fu"ries, n. pl.
Definition: See Fury, 3.
Fu"ry, n. Etym: [L. fur.]
Definition: A thief. [Obs.] Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. J. Fleteher.
Fu"ry, n.; pl. Furies. Etym: [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 Megæra; 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 Parcæ, 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 April 2024
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