Sauce \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]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Sauce \Sauce\ (s[add]s), v. t. [Cf. F. saucer.]
[imp. & p. p.
Sauced (s[add]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Saucing
(s[add]"s[i^]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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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