Fury

n.	1.	A thief. Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. - J. Fleteher.
	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. I do oppose my patience to his fury. - Shak.
	3.	(Greek Myth.) 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. 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.

Noun	1.	fury - a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" Synonyms: rage, madness
	2.	fury - state of violent mental agitation Synonyms: delirium, frenzy, hysteria, craze
	3.	fury - the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, vehemence, violence, wildness
	4.	Fury - (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals Synonyms: Erinyes, Eumenides

Alecto, Jezebel, Mafioso, Megaera, Nemesis, Tartar, Tisiphone, Young Turk, abandon, acerbity, acrimony, agitation, amok, ardency, ardor, asperity, attack, battle-ax, bear, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, bitch, bitch-kitty, bluster, bomber, brawl, broil, brouhaha, brute, burning rage, cacophony, cat, chaos, choler, common scold, commotion, convulsion, crank, craze, crosspatch, delirium, demon, devil, disturbance, dragon, ebullition, ecstasy, embroilment, excitement, fanaticism, feist, ferment, ferocity, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fever, fiend, fierceness, fire, fire and fury, fire-eater, firebrand, fishwife, fit, flap, fomentation, foofaraw, fume, furious rage, furor, furore, fuss, goon, gorilla, grimalkin, grizzly bear, grouch, gunsel, gusto, hag, hardnose, heart, heartiness, heat, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhag, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, hubbub, hysteria, impassionedness, impetuosity, incendiary, indignation, infatuation, intoxication, ire, killer, liveliness, mad, mad dog, madcap, madness, mania, monster, mugger, murderous insanity, orgasm, orgy, overambitiousness, overanxiety, overanxiousness, overeagerness, overenthusiasm, overzealousness, pandemonium, paroxysm, passion, passionateness, psychokinesia, racket, rancor, rapist, rapture, ravishment, relish, revolutionary, row, ruckus, rumpus, savage, savagery, savor, scold, seizure, she-devil, she-wolf, shrew, siren, sorehead, soul, spasm, spirit, spitfire, storminess, tearing passion, tempestuousness, termagant, terror, terrorist, the Erinyes, the Eumenides, the Furies, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy, towering rage, transport, tumult, tumultuousness, turbulence, turmoil, ugly customer, uproar, upset, vehemence, verve, violent, virago, vixen, warmth, warmth of feeling, wild beast, wildcat, wildness, witch, wolf, zeal, zealotism, zealotry, zealousness

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