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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.]
   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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   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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   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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   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 , v. t. [Cf. F. saucer.] [imp. & p. p. Sauced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Saucing .]
   To accompany with something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing condiments; to season; to flavor.
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   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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   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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   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 , n. [F.] (Fine Art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
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