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A
wild fancy; a confused notion. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

3. A confusing and baffling network, as of
paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth. "Quaint
mazes on the wanton green." Shak.

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.

Syn. -- Labyrinth; intricacy. See Labyrinth.

Maze (?), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Mazed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Mazing.] To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and
confuse; to amaze. South.

Maze, v. i. To be
bewildered. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Maz"ed*ness (?), n. The condition
of being mazed; confusion; astonishment. [Obs.]
Chaucer.

Maze"ful (?), a.

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