Labyrinth

1. n. A pattern or design representing a maze, — often inlaid in the tiled floor of a church, etc.
2. n. An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.
3. n. Any intricate or involved inclosure; especially, an ornamental maze or inclosure in a park or garden.
4. n. Any object or arrangement of an intricate or involved form, or having a very complicated nature.
5. n. An inextricable or bewildering difficulty.
6. n. The internal ear. See Note under Ear.
7. n. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.