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Sauce [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A mixture or composition to be eaten with food for improving its relish.

2. High sauces and rich spices are brought from the Indies.

3. In New England, culinary vegetables and roots eaten with flesh. This application of the word falls in nearly with the definition.

4. 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.

5. SAUCE consisting of stewed apples, is a great article in some parts of New England; but cranberries make the most delicious sauce

6. To serve one the same sauce is to retaliate one injury with another. [Vulgar.]

Sauce [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

4. Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.

5. Thou say'st his meat was sauc'd with thy upbraidings.

6. To treat with bitter, pert or tart language. [Vulgar.]

Sauce [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

2. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.

3. Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc.

4. Sauciness; impertinence.

5. A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

Sauce [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

3. To make poignant; to give zest, flavor or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.

4. To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.

Sauce-alone [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Jack-by-the-hedge. See under Jack.

Sauce-box [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

saus'-box. [from saucy.] A saucy impudent fellow.

Sauce-pan [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

saus'-pan. A small pan for sauce, or a small skillet with a long handle, in which sauce or small things are boiled.

Saucebox [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A saucy, impudent person; especially, a pert child.

Sauced [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Sauce

Saucepan [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan.

Saucer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A small pan in which sauce is set on a table.

2. A piece of china or other ware, in which a tea cup or coffee cup is set.

Saucer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table.

2. A small dish, commonly deeper than a plate, in which a cup is set at table.

3. Something resembling a saucer in shape.

4. A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.

5. A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.