Labyrinth

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one's way; a maze.
  • noun. The maze in which the Minotaur was confined.
  • noun. Something highly intricate or convoluted in character, composition, or construction.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A group of complex interconnecting anatomical cavities.
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  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An intricate combination of passages running into one another from different directions, in which it is difficult or impossible to find the way from point to point, or to reach the place of exit from the interior, without a clue or guide; a maze.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Any confused complication of objects, lines, ideas, etc.; any thing or subject characterized by intricate turnings or windings; a perplexity.
  • noun. The internal ear; the essential organ of hearing.
  • noun. In ornithology, same as tympanum, 2
  • noun. .—5. In mining, an apparatus used in concentrating or dressing slimes.
  • noun. A long chamber filled with deflectors or diaphragms placed alternately, used to cool and condense the fumes of mercury, other vapors, or smoke.
  • To shut up, inclose, or entangle in or as in a maze or labyrinth.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance.
  • noun. Any intricate or involved inclosure; especially, an ornamental maze or inclosure in a park or garden, having high hedges separating confusingly convoluted passages.
  • noun. Any object or arrangement of an intricate or involved form, or having a very complicated nature.
  • noun. An inextricable or bewildering difficulty.
  • noun. The internal ear. See Note under Ear.
  • noun. A series of canals through which a stream of water is directed for suspending, carrying off, and depositing at different distances, the ground ore of a metal.
  • noun. A pattern or design representing a maze, -- often inlaid in the tiled floor of a church, etc.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A maze, especially underground or covered.
  • noun. Part of the inner ear.
  • noun. Anything complicated and confusing, like a maze.
  • verb. To enclose in a labyrinth, or as though in a labyrinth.
  • verb. To arrange in the form of a labyrinth.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium
  • noun. complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost
  • Word Usage
    "They next went to what he called his labyrinth, which was a little walk he was cutting, zig-zag, through some brushwood, so low that no person above three foot height could be hid by it."