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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

... garments habitable. He called his cutter into consultation and they went over me carefully, meantime uttering those commiserating clucking sounds one tailor always utters when examining another tailor's handiwork. After this my tailor took a lump of chalk and charted out a kind of Queen Rosamond's maze of crossmarks on my breeches and said I might leave them, and that if surgery could save them he would operate. At any rate he guaranteed to cut them away sufficiently to admit of my breast bone coming out into the ...

— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb

... Scared and attentive, she listened in a maze for the sound of the front door. She heard it open. But was it possible that she heard also the creak of the gate? She sprang to the bow window with surprising activity, and pulled aside a blind, one inch.... There was Rachel tripping ...

— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett

... driven, The boat fled visibly—three nights and days, Borne like a cloud through morn, and noon, and even, We sailed along the winding watery ways 4745 Of the vast stream, a long and labyrinthine maze. ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley

... the sloping plain on which the city stands, and bears its commerce to the sea. Near by grows a magnificent forest, one of the largest in France, covering no less than ninety-four thousand acres. Within the city appears the lofty spires of a magnificent cathedral, while numerous towers rise from a maze of buildings, giving the place, from a distance, a highly attractive aspect. It is still surrounded by its mediaeval walls, outside of which extend prosperous suburbs, while far and wide ...

— Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality. French. • Charles Morris

... between the shattered gates and wound our way in the moonlight through the maze of gnarled fruit-trees, decaying farm implements and piles of lumber, towards the small door that formed the only opening in the first story of this deserted fortress, the cold silence was shattered by the harsh baying of ...

— Black Spirits and White - A Book of Ghost Stories • Ralph Adams Cram

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