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I do oppose my patience to his
fury.

3. 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.

4. One of the Parcæ, or Fates, esp.
Atropos. [R.]

Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred
shears,

And slits the thin-spun life.

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.

Furze (?), n. [OE. firs, As.
fyrs.] (Bot.) A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex
Europæus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon
the plains and hills of Great Britain; -- called also gorse,
and whin.


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