From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
sauce
n : flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an
accompaniment to food
v 1: behave saucy or impudently towards
2: dress (food) with a relish
3: add zest or flavor to, make more interesting; "sauce the
roast"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
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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.]
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Earth, yield me roots;
Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate
With thy most operant poison! --Shak.
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3. To make poignant; to give zest, flavor or interest to; to
set off; to vary and render attractive.
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Then fell she to sauce her desires with
threatenings. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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Thou sayest his meat was sauced with thy
upbraidings. --Shak.
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4. To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be
impudent or saucy to. [Colloq. or Low]
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I'll sauce her with bitter words. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
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High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies.
--Sir S.
Baker.
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2. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat. [Prov. Eng. &
Colloq. U.S.] --Forby. Bartlett.
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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.
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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).
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4. Sauciness; impertinence. [Low.] --Haliwell.
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To serve one the same sauce, to retaliate in the same kind.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Sauce \Sauce\ (s[=o]s), n. [F.] (Fine Art)
A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the
stump.
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