maze

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An intricate, usually confusing network of interconnecting pathways, as in a garden; a labyrinth.
2. n. A physical situation in which it is easy to get lost: a maze of bureaucratic divisions.
3. n. A graphic puzzle, the solution of which is an uninterrupted path through an intricate pattern of line segments from a starting point to a goal.
4. n. Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle: a maze of government regulations.
5. v. Chiefly Southern U.S. To bewilder or astonish.
6. v. Chiefly Southern U.S. To stupefy; daze. See Regional Note at possum.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To confuse; bewilder; amaze; especially, to confuse by intricacy.
2. To be bewildered, perplexed, or puzzled.
3. To wind intricately.
4. n. Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; bewilderment.
5. n. Anything intended to confuse or mislead; a snare; a deception.
6. n. A wild fancy; a confused notion; an error.
7. n. A baffling and confusing network of paths or passages; a labyrinth: as, the maze of Hampton Court in England; a winding and turning; hence, a perplexed or embarrassing state of things; intricate disorder; entanglement: as, he found affairs all in a maze.
8. n. Wonder; matter of wonder or curiosity.
9. n. A variant of mease, 1.

Wiktionary

1. n. A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way.
2. n. Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle.
3. n. Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.
4. v. to amaze, astonish, bewilder
5. v. to daze, stupefy, or confuse someone

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete A wild fancy; a confused notion.
2. n. Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.
3. n. A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth.
4. n. A complex and confusing system or set of rules that causes bwilderment.
5. v. To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze.
6. v. obsolete To be bewildered.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost
2. n. something jumbled or confused