Maze | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Māze, n.

noun

n. [A-S. māse, whirlpool, gulf; Icel. meis, winding, curve; O. H. Ger. meisā, pack, coffer; M. & N. H. Ger. meise, a carrying frame.] 1. A confusing and baffling net-work of paths or passages; an embarrassing place; an intricacy; a labyrinth. “Quaint mazes on the wanton green.” Shak. “Or down the tempting maze of Shawford brook.” Wordsworth. The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled with mazes, and perplexed with error. Addison. 2. Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty. Syn.—Labyrinth; perplexity; intricacy. See LABYRINTH.

Māze, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. MAZED; p. pr. & vb. n. MAZING.] To confound with intricacy; to amaze; to bewilder.

They so mazed and stupefied his conscience, that it lay, as it were, in a swoon. South.

Māze, v. i.

verbintransitive

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