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mazy, a.|ˈmeɪzɪ|
Forms: 6 macy, 6–7 mazie, 7 mazi, 7, 9 mazey, 7– mazy.
[f. maze n. + -y1.]
1. Resembling or of the nature of a maze; full of windings and turnings.
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Dec. 25, I wont to raunge amydde the mazie thickette. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. 1. Eden 510 Not treading Sin's false mazy measures. 1615Crooke Body of Man 465 A mazey laberynth of small veines and arteries. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 161, I..prie In every Bush and Brake, where hap may finde The serpent sleeping, in whose mazie foulds To hide me. 1714Pope Rape of Lock ii. 139 Some thrid the mazy ringlets of her hair. 1728― Dunc. i. 68 Pleas'd with the madness of the mazy dance. 1797Coleridge Kubla Khan 25 Five miles meandering with a mazy motion..the sacred river ran. 1844Hood Haunted Ho. xxxiii, The cobweb hung across in mazy tangle. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. (1890) II. lxi. 434 It is hard to keep one's head through this mazy whirl of offices, elections [etc.].
b. Moving in a maze-like course.
1725Pope Odyss. xvii. 355 With him the youth pursu'd the goat or fawn, Or trac'd the mazy leveret o'er the lawn.
c. as n. jocular. Short for ‘the mazy dance’.
1840Dickens Old C. Shop lvi, In remembrance of her with whom I shall never again thread the windings of the mazy.
2. spec. in Min. Having convoluted markings.
1811Pinkerton Petral. I. 465 Mazy alabastrite, of a deep brown, with lighter veins.
3. Giddy, dizzy, confused in the head. dial.
c1510Songs (MS. Royal, App. 58) in Anglia XII. 268 My hed is all macy and meruelowsly dothe werke. c1746Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. Wks. (1862) 45 Sumheaw it made meh meazy. 1896Daily News 5 Sept. 2/4 Deceased seemed to have accidentally fallen in [the water], probably during a ‘mazy bout’, she being subject to severe headaches.
4. Comb.
1728–46Thomson Spring 576 Oh pour The mazy-running soul of melody Into my varied verse. |