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.