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   Maze (māz), n. [OE. mase; cf. OE. masen to confuse, puzzle, Norweg. masast to fall into a slumber, masa to be continually busy, prate, chatter, Icel. masa to chatter, dial. Sw. masa to bask, be slow, work slowly and lazily, mas slow, lazy.]
   1. A wild fancy; a confused notion. [Obs.]  Chaucer.
   
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   2. Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.
   
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   3. A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth. “Quaint mazes on the wanton green.”  Shak.
   
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   Or down the tempting maze of Shawford brook. Wordaworth.
   
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   The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate,
   
   Puzzled with mazes, and perplexed with error. Addison.
   
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   4. A complex and confusing system or set of rules that causes bwilderment; as, “a maze of environemntal regulations”.
   
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   Syn. -- Labyrinth; intricacy. See Labyrinth.
   
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   Maze (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mazed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mazing.] To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze.  South.
   
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   Maze, v. i. To be bewildered. [Obs.]  Chaucer.
   
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