Definition
| • | A thief. |
| • | Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. |
| • | Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence. |
| • | pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides. |
| • | One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos. |
| • | A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant. |
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