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& adv. [FURTHER] A. As adj .: Most distant and remote, either in time or place. B. As adv.: At or to the greatest distance or extent. "They are her furthest reaching instrument." Davies: Immortality of the Soul, s. 14. für-tive, a. [Fr. furtif (fem. furtive ), from Lat. furtivus = thievish, from furtum = theft; fur = a thief; Ital. & Sp. furtivo .] IMG:content-0251.png:[blocks in formation] 4. Impetuosity, violence; as, the fury of the storm, of the waves, . 5. A furious, raving, or violent woman. "He dorste not his sorwe telle, But languish eth, as doth a furie in helle." Chaucer: C. Т., 11,262. Π. Cla ic Mythol. (pl.): The avenging deities. They were three in number-Alecto, Megsæra and Tis i phone. They were by some represented as the daughters of Night and Earth, or, according to Hesiod, they sprang from the blood-drops which fell from the wound inflicted by Kronos, or Saturn, on his father, Uranus. By the Greeks they were called Erinnyes, or Eumenides. "That dread of a terrible retribution, which the ancient polytheists personified under the awful name of the Furies."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng . , ch. xiii. For the difference between fury and madne , see MADNESS. 1951 *fury-flake, s. The first sign of rage or fury. "Was my eye, 'stead of tears, with red fury -flakes brightening." Byron: To Caroline. *fury-like, a. Like a fury; raging, frenzied. *fury-moving, adj . Stirring to fury or frenzy; maddening. "Forthwith began these fury-moving sounds." Daniel: Civil Wars , bk. iv. *für'-ў (2), s . [Lat. fur .] A thief, a robber. "Have an eye to your plate for there be furies."Fletcher. *für-ý, v. t. [FURY, 8.] To incite to fury; to infuriate. fürze, *firse, *friise, *furzin, *fur-rys, 8. [A. S. fyrs; cogn. with Gael. freas = a briar, a bush, a shrub.] Bot.: The genus Ulex (q. v.). (1) Common furze: Bot.: Ulex europæus , called also the Common Whin. It is a well-known spinous shrub with bright yellow flowers and legumes opening elastically. (2) Of other species French and Great Furze are Ulex europœus ; Ground Furze is On on is arvensis, and Needle Furze, Genista anglica .