The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
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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. 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).-
Sauciness; impertinence. [Low.]
--Haliwell.To serve one the same sauce, to retaliate in the same kind.