mazy

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Far below the horizon nature is elaborate, full of fancies,--mazy watercourses, delicate dingles, fantastically gloomy ravines, misshapen woods, gibbering with diablerie; but here how simple, how great, how good she is!

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  1. adjective Resembling a maze, as in design or complexity; labyrinthine.

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  • The winger set off on a mazy, stepping, jinking run beating a plethora of would-be tacklers. —  Irish Blogs
  • "When I turned him over he was kinder mazy, didn't know where he was or what had occurred, an' was like as he was sick. —  Kiddie the Scout
  • It might be all right for youngsters like Holmes or Swaynston, the licensed fool of the smoking room, or Dyson, to whose senile enthusiasm for the mazy rout we have heard allusion made--the latter on the principle of "no fool like an old fool"; but not for him--not for a man in the matured vigour of his physical and mental powers. —  The Sign of the Spider
  • The sun-rays slanting downwards through the mazy, golden aisles made her think of the afternoon on which she had waited for him under the dome of St. Paul's The heat as she proceeded became intense. —  The Swindler and Other Stories
  • When he felt his heead gettin' mazy, he consated he were fallin' asleep; his een gat that dazed he couldn't see t' squirrels no more, an' he thowt he mun be liggin' i' his bed at home under t' clothes. —  More Tales of the Ridings
 

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