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Entry 6 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Maze

/(māz)/ · IPA /ˈmeɪz/
01 n. A wild fancy; a confused notion.
  1. 1.
    A wild fancy; a confused notion.[Obs.]
  2. 2.
    Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.
  3. 3.
    A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth.
    “Or down the tempting maze of Shawford brook.” — Wordaworth.
    “The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled with mazes, and perplexed with error.” Addison.
  4. 4.
    A complex and confusing system or set of rules that causes bwilderment; as, a maze of environemntal regulations.
02 v. t. To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze.
imp. & p. p. Mazed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mazing
  1. 1.
    To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze.
03 v. i. To be bewildered.
  1. 1.
    To be bewildered.[Obs.]