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Definition of sauces
Sauce 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]
Sauce Sauce Sauce (s[=o]s), n. [F.] (Fine Art)
A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the
stump.