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Furies
Furies Fu"ries, n. pl. See Fury, 3.
Furies
Fury Fu"ry, n.; pl. Furies. [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 Meg[ae]ra; 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 Parc[ae], 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.

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- Eumenides (Εὐμενίδες, the "Gracious ones") and commonly known in English as the Furies, are chthonic goddesses of vengeance in ancient Gr**** religion and mythology...
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- Look up Furies or furies in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Furies (Erinyes) are the deities of vengeance in Gr**** mythology. Furies may also refer...
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