Maze /(māz)/

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

   The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled with mazes, and perplexed with error.

4. A complex and confusing system or set of rules that causes bwilderment; as, a maze of environemntal regulations.

imp. & p. p. Mazed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mazing

1. To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze.

1. To be bewildered. [Obs.]