6 definitions found 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. [1913 Webster] 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.] [1913 Webster] Earth, yield me roots; Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate With thy most operant poison! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To make poignant; to give zest, flavor or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive. [1913 Webster] Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster] Thou sayest his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to. [Colloq. or Low] [1913 Webster] I'll sauce her with bitter words. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies. --Sir S. Baker. [1913 Webster] 2. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] --Forby. Bartlett. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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). [1913 Webster] 4. Sauciness; impertinence. [Low.] --Haliwell. [1913 Webster] {To serve one the same sauce}, to retaliate in the same kind. [Vulgar] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 156 Moby Thesaurus words for "sauce": Colbert, French dressing, Italian dressing, Lorenzo dressing, Ritz sauce, Russian dressing, Smitane, Soubise, alcohol, all sorts, allemande, answer back, aqua vitae, assemblage, assortment, audacity, back talk, backchat, booze, bourguignonne, brass, brazenness, broad spectrum, brown sauce, budge, butter, cataplasm, cheek, cheekiness, condiment, conglomeration, corpse reviver, cream sauce, crush, crust, dash, dental pulp, disrespect, disrespectfulness, drink, duck sauce, egg sauce, espagnole, firewater, flavor, gall, gallimaufry, gravy, green sauce, grog, hash, hint, hodgepodge, hooch, hotchpot, hotchpotch, impertinence, impudence, infusion, inkling, insolence, intimation, jaw, juice, jumble, likker, lip, magpie, marinara, mash, mayonnaise, medicine, medley, melange, mess, mingle-mangle, miscellany, mishmash, mix, mixed bag, mole, mouth, mush, nerve, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, paper pulp, paprika sauce, paste, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, pepper, pepper sauce, pertness, pith, plaster, porridge, potpourri, poulette, poultice, provoke, pudding, pulp, pulp lead, pulpwood, rag pulp, ravigote sauce, remoulade sauce, roux, salad, salad dressing, salmagundi, salt, sass, sassiness, sauciness, savor, scramble, season, seasoning, shade, shallot sauce, smack, smash, snake medicine, soupcon, spice, sponge, sprinkling, squash, stew, suggestion, sulfate pulp, sulfite pulp, suspicion, sweet-and-sour sauce, taint, talk back, tartar sauce, tempering, thought, tiger milk, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, touch, trace, vestige, vinaigrette, what you will, white lead, wood pulp From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.
Powered by Blog Dictionary [BlogDict]
Kindly supported by
Vaffle Invitation Code
Get a Freelance Job - Outsource Your Projects | Threadless Coupon
All rights
reserved. (2008-2024)