fury

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Violent anger; rage. See Synonyms at anger.
2. n. Violent, uncontrolled action; turbulence.
3. n. Greek & Roman Mythology The three terrible winged goddesses with serpentine hair, Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone, who pursue and punish doers of unavenged crimes.
4. n. A woman regarded as angry or spiteful.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Extreme anger or rage; anger or wrath which overrides all self-control; a storm of anger; madness.
2. n. Violent or impetuous action of any kind; vehement manifestation of force; violence.
3. n. Enthusiasm; inspired or frenzied excitement of the mind.
4. n. In classical mythology, one of the avenging deities, called in Greek mythology the Erinyes or, by euphemism, Eumenides, and by the Romans the Furiæ or Diræ, daughters of Earth or of Night, represented as fearful maidens, often winged, and with serpents twined in their hair, clad in dusky garments girdled with red. They dwelt in the depth of Tartarus, and, owing to their dread power of avenging wrong, whetherintentional or not, were feared by gods and men. According to fully developed Greek tradition, they were three in number and called Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra. They relentlessly punished crime, especially breaches of piety and hospitality, both before and after death. They were therefore also regarded as goddesses of fate, in common with the Parcæ; hence the use of the name in the extract from Milton.
5. n. Hence A minister or a concentrated manifestation of vengeance; an avenging or vengeful personality, principle, or action.
6. n. A thief.
7. n. Synonyms Vexation, Indignation, etc. See anger1 and Violence, vehemence, tempestuousness, fierceness, frenzy.
8. To infuriate; agitate violently.

Wiktionary

1. n. Extreme anger.
2. n. Strength or violence in action.
3. n. An angry or malignant person.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete A thief.
2. n. Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
3. n. Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
4. n. pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megæra; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
5. n. rare One of the Parcæ, or Fates, esp. Atropos.
6. n. A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals
2. n. a feeling of intense anger
3. n. state of violent mental agitation
4. n. the property of being wild or turbulent