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Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced. The blind mazes of this tangled wood. Milton.

Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. Trumbull.

ion of a mystery. The clew, without which it was perilous to enter the vast and intricate maze of countinental politics, was in his hands. Macaulay.

To throw into confusion or disorder; to perplex; to strike with amazement; to dismay.

Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for refletion; terror, combined with amaxement; dismay. The chiefs around, In silence wrapped, in onsternation downed. Attend the stern reply. Pope.

she kept a bevy Of powdered coxcombs at her levee. Goldsmith. Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools. Pope.

room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing-room. He [Johnson] would amaze a drawing-room by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer. Macaulay. Drawing-room car. See Palace car, under Car.

dwells on a note. They stand at a distance, dwelling on his looks and language, fixed in amazement. Buckminster.

congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge. As half amazed, half frighted all his flock. Tennyson.

A straight path. [Archaic] Here's a maze trod, indeed, Through forthrights and meanders! Shak.

loq.] When you were graveled for lack of matter. Shak. The physician was so graveled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say. Sir T. North.

the parts of a garden. The roughest berry on the rudest hedge. Shak. Through the verdant maze Of sweetbrier hedges I pursue my walk. Thomson.

s anything. So he the famed Cilician fencer praised, And, at each hit, with wonder seems amazed. Dryden.

o precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity. And wild amazement hurries up and down The little number of your doubtful friends. Shak.

r the sea or the atmosphere. "The clear hyaline, the glassy sea." Milton. Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline. Mrs. Browning.

at is essential to successful or normal activity. He . . . stammered like a child, or an amazed, imperfect person. Jer. Taylor.

Want of comprehension or understanding. "These mazes and incomprehensions." Bacon.

n inextricable knot or difficulty; inextricable confusion. Lost in the wild, inextricable maze. Blackmore.

hysician; an irregular proceeding; irregular motion; irregular conduct, etc. Cf. Regular. Mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular Then most when most irregular they seem. Milton. Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight Against the irregular and wild Glendower. Shak. A flowery meadow through which a clear…

Any intricate or involved inclosure; especially, an ornamental maze or inclosure in a park or garden.