Sauce (?), n. [F., fr. OF.
sausse, LL. salsa, properly, salt pickle, fr. L.
salsus salted, salt, p. p. of salire to salt, fr.
sal salt. See Salt, and cf. Saucer, Souse
pickle, Souse to plunge.] 1. A composition
of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish;
especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint
sauce; sweet sauce, etc. "Poignant sauce."
Chaucer.
High sauces and rich spices fetched from the
Indies.
Sir S. Baker.
2. Any garden vegetables eaten with
meat. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] Forby. Bartlett.
Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers . . . they
dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to
their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt.
Beverly.
3. Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other
food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce,
etc. [U.S.] "Stewed apple sauce." Mrs. Lincoln (Cook
Book).
4. Sauciness; impertinence. [Low.]
Haliwell.
To serve one the same sauce, to retaliate in
the same kind. [Vulgar]
Sauce (s&add;s), v. t. [Cf. F.
saucer.] [imp. & p. p. Sauced
(s&add;st); p. pr. & vb. n. Saucing
(s&add;"s&ibreve;ng).] 1. To accompany with
something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing
condiments; to season; to flavor.
2. To cause to relish anything, as if with a
sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate;
hence, to cover, mingle, or dress, as if with sauce; to make an
application to. [R.]
Earth, yield me roots;
Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate
With thy most operant poison!
Shak.
3. To make poignant; to give zest, flavor or
interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
Then fell she to sauce her desires with
threatenings.
Sir P. Sidney.
Thou sayest his meat was sauced with thy
upbraidings.
Shak.
4. To treat with bitter, pert, or tart
language; to be impudent or saucy to. [Colloq. or Low]
I'll sauce her with bitter words.
Shak.
||Sauce (sōs), n. [F.] (Fine
Art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading
with the stump.
Sauce (?), n. [F., fr. OF.
sausse, LL. salsa, properly, salt pickle, fr. L.
salsus salted, salt, p. p. of salire to salt, fr.
sal salt. See Salt, and cf. Saucer, Souse
pickle, Souse to plunge.] 1. A composition
of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish;
especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint
sauce; sweet sauce, etc. "Poignant sauce."
Chaucer.
High sauces and rich spices fetched from the
Indies.
Sir S. Baker.
2. Any garden vegetables eaten with
meat. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] Forby. Bartlett.
Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers . . . they
dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to
their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt.
Beverly.
3. Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other
food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce,
etc. [U.S.] "Stewed apple sauce." Mrs. Lincoln (Cook
Book).
4. Sauciness; impertinence. [Low.]
Haliwell.
To serve one the same sauce, to retaliate in
the same kind. [Vulgar]
Sauce (s&add;s), v. t. [Cf. F.
saucer.] [imp. & p. p. Sauced
(s&add;st); p. pr. & vb. n. Saucing
(s&add;"s&ibreve;ng).] 1. To accompany with
something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing
condiments; to season; to flavor.
2. To cause to relish anything, as if with a
sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate;
hence, to cover, mingle, or dress, as if with sauce; to make an
application to. [R.]
Earth, yield me roots;
Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate
With thy most operant poison!
Shak.
3. To make poignant; to give zest, flavor or
interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
Then fell she to sauce her desires with
threatenings.
Sir P. Sidney.
Thou sayest his meat was sauced with thy
upbraidings.
Shak.
4. To treat with bitter, pert, or tart
language; to be impudent or saucy to. [Colloq. or Low]
I'll sauce her with bitter words.
Shak.
||Sauce (sōs), n. [F.] (Fine
Art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading
with the stump.
