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A group of fossil amphibians allied to the labyrinthodonts, having the head defended by bony, sculptured plates, as in some ganoid fishes.

omplicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc. His style was fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding with the utmost clearness. Addison. The nature of man is intricate. Burke.

A large extinct genus of labyrinthodonts, found in the European Triassic rocks.

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.

A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by Dædalus in Crete.

A maze or labyrinth. [Obs.]

The fluid which surrounds the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear, and separates it from the walls of the chambers in which the labyrinth lies.

To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate. That labyrinth is easily pervaded. Blackstone.

Anything round, as a circle, round" [the crown]. Shak. In labyrinth of many a round self-rolled. Milton.

A little sac; esp., a part of the membranous labyrinth of the ear. See the Note under Ear.

nct order of amphibians found fossil in the Mesozoic rocks; called also Stegocephali, and Labyrinthodonta.

A little sac, or bag; a utricle; especially, a part of the membranous labyrinth of the ear. See the Note under Ear.