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emper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret. Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret. Pope.

Furious; raging; tormenting. [Obs.] Chaucer.

eaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits. Burke.

Vehemence, or furiousnes of temper. Shak.

Rushing with force and violence; moving with impetus; furious; forcible; violent; as, an impetuous wind; an impetuous torrent. Went pouring forward with impetuous speed. Byron.

A modern term applied to animals (as a boar) when borne as raging, or with furious aspect.

Enraged; rading; furiously angry; infuriated. Milton. Inflamed beyond the most infuriate wrath. Thomson.

Enraged; furious.

The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness.

A coachman; a driver; especially, one who drives furiously. [Colloq.]

nts or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping. Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. Milton.

ge. To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice. Dryden. To lash out, to strike out wildly or furiously.

Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog.

Affected with madness; raging; furious. -- Mad"ding*ly, adv. [Archaic] Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Gray. The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged. Milton.

An attack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault. By storm and onslaught to proceed. Hudibras.

utrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous crimes." Shak. "Outrageous panegyric." Dryden.

as, the rain pours; the people poured out of the theater. In the rude throng pour on with furious pace. Gay.

Falling, flowing, or rushing, with steep descent; headlong. Precipitate the furious torrent flows. Prior.

Furious; raging; extremely violent.

Rabidness; furiousness.