fury

noun

1. 1

   Extreme anger.

   Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.

   The building of the railway in this notable beauty spot roused the great Victorian writer John Ruskin to fury.

2. 2

   Strength or violence in action.

   Small lightes are ſoone blown out, huge fires abide, / And with the winde in greater furie fret: / The petty ſtreames that paie a dailie det / To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſh fals haſt, / Adde to his flowe, but alter not his taſt.

   I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis,[…]!

3. 3

   An angry or malignant person.

noun

1. 1

   obsoleteA thief.

   But have an eye to your plate , for there be Furies.

Forms

plural

furies