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Webster 1913 Edition
Sauce
Sauce
,Noun.
1.
A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings;
“Poignant sauce.” as, mint
sauce
; sweet sauce
, etc. 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
(sa̤s)
, Verb.
T.
[Cf. F.
saucer
.] [
imp. & p. p.
Sauced
(sa̤st)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Saucing
(sa̤′sĭng)
.] 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,
With thy most operant poison!
Who seeks for better of thee,
sauce
his palateWith thy most operant poison!
Shakespeare
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. Shakespeare
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. Shakespeare
Sauce
(sōs)
, Noun.
[F.]
(Fine Art)
A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sauce
SAUCE
,Noun.
1.
A mixture or composition to be eaten with food for improving its relish.High sauces and rich spices are brought from the Indies.
2.
In New England, culinary vegetables and roots eaten with flesh. This application of the word falls in nearly with the definition.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.
Sauce consisting of stewed apples, is a great article in some parts of New England; but cranberries make the most delicious sauce.
To serve one the same sauce, is to retaliate one injury with another. [Vulgar.]
SAUCE
, v.t.1.
To accompany meat with something to give it a higher relish.2.
To gratify with rich tastes; as, to sauce the palate.3.
To intermix or accompany with any thing good, or ironically, with any thing bad.Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.
Thou say'st his meat was sauc'd with thy upbraidings.
4.
To treat with bitter, pert or tart language. [Vulgar.]