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Sauce

Sauce Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Sauce? [n] flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food [v] add zest or flavor to, make more interesting; "sauce the roast" [v] dress with a relish, for example, as of food [v] behave saucy or impudently towards Synonyms \| Synonyms for Sauce: Related Terms \| Find terms related to Sauce: See Also \| act \| aioli \| aioli sauce \| allemande \| allemande sauce \| alter \| anchovy sauce \| apricot sauce \| barbecue sauce \| bearnaise \| bechamel \| bechamel sauce \| behave \| Bercy \| Bercy butter \| bordelaise \| bourguignon \| bourguignon sauce \| bread sauce \| brown onion sauce \| brown sauce \| Burgundy sauce \| caper sauce \| change \| Chinese brown sauce \| chocolate sauce \| chocolate syrup \| cocktail sauce \| Colbert \| Colbert butter \| condiment \| curry sauce \| demiglace \| demi-glaze \| dish \| do \| dressing \| espanole \| flavor \| flavour \| garlic sauce \| gravy \| hard sauce \| hollandaise \| horseradish sauce \| hot sauce \| Hungarian sauce \| hunter's sauce \| Lyonnaise sauce \| marchand de vin \| mole \| mushroom sauce \| mushroom win sauce \| mustard sauce \| Nantua \| Newburg sauce \| paprika sauce \| pasta sauce \| peach sauce \| pepper sauce \| plum sauce \| Poivrade \| poulette \| ravigote \| remoulade sauce \| salad dressing \| sauce Albert \| sauce chausseur \| sauce Espagnole \| sauce espanole \| seafood sauce \| season \| shrimp sauce \| Smitane \| snail butter \| Soubise \| spaghetti sauce \| tartar sauce \| tartare sauce \| veloute \| white onion sauce \| white sauce \| wine sauce \| Worcester sauce \| Worcestershire \| Worcestershire sauce Sauce In Webster's Dictionary \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\ (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. \Sauce\ (s[=o]s), n. [F.] (Fine Art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

Sauce Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Sauce?

[n] flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food
[v] add zest or flavor to, make more interesting; "sauce the roast"
[v] dress with a relish, for example, as of food
[v] behave saucy or impudently towards

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Sauce In Webster's Dictionary

\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\ (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.


\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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