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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

maze / māz/ • n. a network of paths and hedges designed as a puzzle through which one has to find a way. ∎ a complex network of paths or passages: they were trapped in a menacing maze of corridors. ∎ a confusing mass of information: a maze of petty regulations. • v. (be mazed) archaic or dial. be dazed and confused: she was still mazed with the drug she had taken.

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Maze

Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms | 1985 | Copyright

Maze

a complexity of winding paths or passages.

Examples: maze of arteries, 1615; of bracken and briar, 1872; of history, 1781; of metaphor and music, 1837; of dirty traditions and foolish ceremonies, 1542.

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maze

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

maze (dial., arch.) stupefy, daze XIII; bewilder XV. First in pps. mased, amased, and bimased, in OE. āmasod (see AMAZE).
Hence maze sb. † delusion, deception XIII; complex network of paths XIV.

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maze

A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | | Copyright

maze. Fret, Greek key, labyrinth, meander, but especially labyrinthine figures in churches and gardens.

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Maze

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

Maze (An Mhaigh) Down. the 5 towns of the Mew 1585. ‘The plain’.

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maze

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

maze •ablaze, amaze, appraise, baize, Blaise, blaze, braise, broderie anglaise, chaise, craze, daze, écossaise, erase, faze, gaze, glaze, graze, Hayes, Hays, haze, laze, liaise, lyonnaise, maize, malaise, Marseillaise, mayonnaise, Mays, maze, phase, phrase, polonaise, praise, prase, raise, raze, upraise •nowadays • polyphase • multiphase •stargaze • amylase • periclase •underglaze • manes • lipase •catchphrase •conquistadores, mores, señores •polymerase • paraphrase •chrysoprase • lactase • equites •Gervaise • endways • edgeways •eques • breadthways • lengthways •leastways • widthways • anyways •sideways • longways • crossways •always

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	Maze Master.(designer Randoll Coate) Magazine article from: Town & Country; 6/1/1999
	Dazed by mazes; Labyrinths in cornfields, parks have visitors going in... Newspaper article from: The Washington Times (Washington, DC); 9/5/2002
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