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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

... into the island maze of Lake Algonquin and the moon was coming up out of Lake Simcoe when the Inverness sailed homeward through the Gates. The little breeze that had danced all day out on the larger lake had gone to sleep here in the shelter of the islands, and Algonquin lay ...

— The End of the Rainbow • Marian Keith

... Forth, and beyond it, dimly blue, the far away Highland hills; eastward, rise the bold contours of Arthur's Seat and the rugged crags of the Castle rock, with the grey Old Town of Edinburgh; while, far below, from a maze of crowded thoroughfares, the hoarse murmur of the toil of a polity of energetic men is borne upon the ear. At times, a man may be as solitary here as in a veritable wilderness; and may meditate undisturbedly upon the epitome of nature and of man—the kingdoms of ...

— Hume - (English Men of Letters Series) • T.H. Huxley

... splendor about these Sun-dances. The tribes gathered for the festival in the long, bright days of the year. They wore ornaments of crystal, quartz, and mica, such as would attract and reflect the rays of the sun. The dance was a glimmering maze of reflections. As it reached its height, gleaming arrows were shot into the air. Above them, in their poetic vision, sat the Sun in his tepee. They held that the thunder was caused by the wings of a great invisible bird. Often, at the close of the Sun-dance ...

— The Log School-House on the Columbia • Hezekiah Butterworth

... captive servants. Not all of them normally lived at this center, but for the funeral feasting they had assembled—which meant a lot of doubling up and tenting out under makeshift cover between the regular buildings of the town. So that the Terrans were glad to be guided through this crowded maze to the Great Hall which was ...

— Plague Ship • Andre Norton

... one street and up another, into a white doorway before any of them had a chance to discover the name of the building, through a maze of aisles and a surging throng of weary sightseers, and paused in the cake department, pointed toward a blue-ribbon cake in one case, and said triumphantly, "Peace's geography cake was the hit of the evening last Saturday, but it took the caramel ...

— At the Little Brown House • Ruth Alberta Brown

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