FURIES

Noun

furies

plural of fury

Anagrams

• rufies, surfie

Etymology

Proper noun

Furies

(Greek god) synonym of Erinyes; the goddesses of vengeance.

Hyponyms: Alecto, Megaera, Tisiphone

Anagrams

• rufies, surfie

Source: Wiktionary


Fu"ries, n. pl.

Definition: See Fury, 3.

FURY

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



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