Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Maze

Maze (māz) , noun

[Old English mase; compare Old English masen to confuse, puzzle, Norweg. masast to fall into a slumber, masa to be continually busy, prate, chatter, Icelandic masa to chatter, dial. Swedish masa to bask, be slow, work slowly and lazily, mas slow, lazy.]

1.
A wild fancy; a confused notion. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
2.
Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.
3.
A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth.
Quaint mazes on the wanton green. — Shakespeare
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
4.
A complex and confusing system or set of rules that causes bewilderment; as, a maze of environmental regulations.

Maze , transitive verb

To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze. — South

Maze , intransitive verb

To be bewildered. [Obsolete] — Chaucer