sauce
    n 1: flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an
         accompaniment to food
    v 1: behave saucily or impudently towards
    2: dress (food) with a relish
    3: add zest or flavor to, make more interesting; "sauce the
       roast"

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.
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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 \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.
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Sauce \Sauce\ (s[=o]s), n. [F.] (Fine Art)
   A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the
   stump.
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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.