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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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furies

n. (fury English)

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Furies (disambiguation)

Furies, or Erinyes, were mythological personifications of vengeance.

Furies may also refer to:

  • The Eumenides, or The Furies, a play by Aeschylus
  • Furies (Shannara), characters in the Shannara book series by Terry Brooks
  • The Furies, characters in the Codex Alera book series by Jim Butcher
  • Female Furies, a group of women warriors in DC Comics
  • The Furies, a 1934 film by Slavko Vorkapić
  • The Furies (1950 film), a 1950 Western film by Anthony Mann
  • The Furies (1930 film), a pre-code murder mystery film
  • "The Furies", a 1965 science fiction novelette by Roger Zelazny
  • The Furies, a 1966 science fiction novel by Keith Roberts
  • The Furies (novel), a 1976 historical novel by John Jakes
  • The Furies, a 2009 historical novel by Bill Napier
  • The Furies, newspaper of The Furies Collective, a Washington DC-based lesbian organization

Erinyes may also refer to:

  • Erinyes (Dungeons & Dragons), a devil in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game

Usage examples of "furies".

Sometimes, in the oldest references to the station, it was called the Furies Point Defensive Listening Station.

In addition to the Furies Point, they monitored forty unmanned listening posts, most along the Klingon border.

Furies battle, that was a condition of serving at the post, but the Furies tale sounded like one of those grandiose stories skiers told when they got off the hill, trying to make a normal run seem like something special.

Anything that comes from Point 473 must be considered a Furies vessel.

We need to know how many ships they have sent through the Furies Point.

The Furies, it seemed, carried poppets, images of themselves stuffed full of pieces of their lives.

He believed that if the Furies returned, they would return stronger, smarter, and even more prepared than they had been before.

The Furies may try to use our fear of them against us, but they will not succeed.

If the research done since the first ship appeared was correct, the Furies had once ruled all of this sector of space.

From what he had seen on the transmission from the Brundage Station, the Furies attacked first.

Picard assured us that we would have no trouble facing the Furies as just another life-form, yet his actions seem to say otherwise.

There a young officer-the same officer who had faced the Furies on the transmission-leaned against the wall like a broken toy soldier.

See how the Furies accomplished their attack, and also keep an eye open for anything that we can use.

But this time the Furies had come through the wormhole with five ships.

Her research with Data showed that the Furies had not encountered Betazoids.