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noun

Maze n.

A wild fancy; a confused notion. (Obs.)

Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.

A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth. "Quaint mazes on the wanton green." "Or down the tempting maze of Shawford brook." "The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled with mazes, and perplexed with error."

A complex and confusing system or set of rules that causes bwilderment; as, a maze of environemntal regulations.

Synonyms: Labyrinth; intricacy. See Labyrinth.

verb

Maze v. t. (past & past part. mazed; pres. part. mazing) To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze.

Maze v. i. To be bewildered. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Maze'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Maze" Quotes from Famous Books

... an hour they entered a low and tangled swamp. They went on through a maze of gloomy, intersecting paths. The boys were surprised to recognize ...

— The Camp in the Snow - Besiedged by Danger • William Murray Graydon

... fit as he was, and Hawke and Tiddler, both hard as nails, were puffed and blown before they had run very far; and so confusing was the maze of craters and battered trench-lines that Dennis suddenly realised that ...

— With Haig on the Somme • D. H. Parry

... could have gone east or west along the cliff path as peaceably as the sheep; but what was a walk like that to wandering in and out among the sea-weed-hung masses, full of corners and ways as a maze; with rock pools amongst them, and chasms and rifts, and rock arches and hollows, and caves ...

— Devon Boys - A Tale of the North Shore • George Manville Fenn

... opinion. From the cradle to the grave, in his needs as in his pleasures, in his conception of the world and of himself, the man of modern times struggles through a maze of endless complication. Nothing is simple any longer: neither thought nor action; not pleasure, not even dying. With our own hands we have added to existence a train of hardships, and lopped off many a gratification. I believe that thousands of our fellow-men, ...

— The Simple Life • Charles Wagner

... board the Ruby, while Bates, who was told to take command of the new prize, with the Pearl, stood in the direction they were supposed to have gone, the Ruby steering in the same direction. The pilot was of opinion that they had gone round Cape Maze, at the eastern end of Cuba, and were making for one of the Bahamas, among which they had every ...

— Roger Willoughby - A Story of the Times of Benbow • William H. G. Kingston

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