Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) The maple tree, or maple wood.

(archaic, or, historical) A large drinking bowl made from such wood; a mazer bowl.

* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 16:

Presently he rose up and set before each young man some meat in a charger and drink in a large mazer , treating me in like manner; and after that they sat questioning me concerning my adventures and what had betided me

Noun

(en noun)

A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way.

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Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle.

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, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=1 citation , passage=A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.}}

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Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.

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