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. ]
High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies. Sir S. Baker. [ 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 ]
To serve one the same sauce,
v. t. [ Cf. F. saucer. ]
Earth, yield me roots;
Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate
With thy most operant poison! Shak. [ 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 ]
I'll sauce her with bitter words. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ F. ] (Fine Art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Bot.) Jack-by-the-hedge. See under Jack. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See Sauce, and Saucy. ] A saucy, impudent person; especially, a pert child. [ 1913 Webster ]
Saucebox, go, meddle with your lady's fan,
And prate not here! A. Brewer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. saucière, from sauce. See Sauce. ]
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