bemaul

t. [Eng. prefix be, and maul. ] Το maul, to beat severely. was just going to snatch the cudgels out of Didius's hands, in order to bemaul Yorick." -Sterne. bě-māze, v.t. [Eng. prefix be , and maze .] Το cause to be in a maze. [MAZE.] bě-mā'zed, pa. par. & a. [BEMAZE.] 1. Lit .: Bewildered with regard to the proper road to choose. "Stock-still there he stands like a traveller bemazed ." Words worth: Written in Germany. 2. Fig .: Bewildered with regard to other matters. "Thy lamp, mysterious word! Which whoso sees, no longer wanders lost, With intellects bemazed in endle doubt," Cowper: The Task, bk. v.