Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way through. · Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle. · A confusion of thought; a state of bewilderment.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo amaze, astonish, bewilder. · To daze or stupefy.
From Middle English mase, from Middle English masen (“to perplex, bewilder”); or perhaps from Old English *mæs (“delusion, bewilderment”); akin to Old English āmasian (“to perplex, confound”), Icelandic masa (“to chatter”). More at amaze.
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