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   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. [Vulgar]
   
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   Sauce (sa̤s), v. t. [Cf. F. saucer.] [imp. & p. p. Sauced (sa̤st); p. pr. & vb. n. Saucing (sa̤ˈsĭng).]
   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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   ‖Sauce (sōs), n. [F.] (Fine Art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
   
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