rage

RAGE, noun [Heb. to grind or gnash the teeth.] 1. Violent anger accompanied with furious words, gestures or agitation; anger excited to fury. Passion sometimes rises to rage Torment and loud lament and furious rage 2. Vehemence or violent exacerbation of any thing painful; as the rage of pain; the rage of a fever; the rage of hunger or thirst. 3. Fury; extreme violence; as the rage of a tempest. 4. Enthusiasm; rapture. Who brought green poesy to her perfect age, and made that art which was a rage 5. Extreme eagerness or passion directed to some object; as the rage for money. You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. RAGE, verb intransitive 1. To be furious with anger; to be exasperated to fury; to be violently agitated with passion. At this he inly rag'd. 2. To be violent and tumultuous. Why do the heathen rage? Psalms 2:1. 3. To be violently driven or agitated; as the raging sea or winds. 4. To ravage; to prevail without restraint, or with fatal effect; as, the plague rages in Cairo. 5. To be driven with impetuosity; to act or move furiously. The chariots shall rage in the streets. Nahum 2. The madding wheels of brazen chariots rag'd. 6. To toy wantonly; to sport. [Not in use.]