Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Fury \Fu"ry\, n. [L. fur.]
   A thief. [Obs.]

         Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. --J.
                                                  Fleteher.

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}.

Source : WordNet®

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