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Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound. By each other's fury lacerate Southey.

To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon. Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden.

fast called Lent; used in, or suitable to, Lent; as, the Lenten season. She quenched her fury at the flood. And with a Lenten salad cooled her blood. Dryden.

Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness. "Mad demeanor." Milton. Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace. Franklin. The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled. Jowett (Thucyd.).

Very or extremely strong. [Obs.] That current with main fury ran. Daniel.

ondition of one inspired, or supposed to be inspired, by a deity; prophetic. [R.] "Mantic fury." Trench.

with a loss. (d) To encounter; to be subjected to. Prepare to meet with more than brutal fury From the fierce prince. Rowe.

To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.

Hatred; fury; envy. [Obs.]

hness of temperament; dullness; want of interest; indifference; coldness. They judge with fury, but they write with phlegm. Pope.

The common people; the mob. [Obs.] The plebe with thirst and fury prest. Sylvester.

. . have poured out my soul before the Lord. 1 Sam. i. 15. Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee. Ezek. vii. 8. London doth pour out her citizens ! Shak. Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand Milton.

To steer; to direct one's course; to go. His fury thus appeased, he puts to land. Dryden.

Incapable of being quenched; inextinguishable; as, quenchless fire or fury. "Once kindled, quenchless evermore." Byron.

Especially, anger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury. torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. Milton.

ay." Milton. A sapling pine he wrenched from out the ground, The readiest weapon that his fury found. Dryden.

Violence; force; fury. [Obs.] Whose raging rigor neither steel nor brass could stay. Spenser.

To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion. "High winde . . . began to rise, high passions -- anger, hate." Milton.

Not courteous or kind; harsh; rude; uncivil; as, a rough temper. A fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough. Shak. A surly boatman, rough as wayes or winds. Prior.

To become calm; to cease from agitation. Till the fury of his highness settle, Come not before him. Shak.