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