1. [n]  the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"
2. [n]  a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage"
3. [n]  (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals
4. [n]  state of violent mental agitation

1. \Fu"ry\, n. [L. fur.]
   A thief. [Obs.]
   
         Have an eye to your plate, for there be furies. --J.
                                                  Fleteher.
   
   

2. \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}.
   
   

as attributed to God, is a figurative expression for dispensing afflictive judgments (Lev. 26:28; Job 20:23; Isa. 63:3; Jer. 4:4; Ezek. 5:13; Dan. 9:16; Zech. 8:2).