Maze

Definition of Maze

Pronunciation: māz

n.	1.	A wild fancy; a confused notion.
	2.	Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.
	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.	A complex and confusing system or set of rules that causes bwilderment; as, a maze of environemntal regulations.
v. t.	1.	To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze. [imp. & p. p. Mazed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Mazing.]
v. i.	1.	To be bewildered.

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