'Sauce' definitions:
Definition of 'sauce'
(from WordNet)
noun
Flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food
verb
Behave saucily or impudently towards
verb
Dress (food) with a relish
verb
Add zest or flavor to, make more interesting; "sauce the roast"
Definition of 'Sauce'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies. --Sir S. Baker. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] --Forby. Bartlett. [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]
- 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). [1913 Webster]
- 4. Sauciness; impertinence. [Low.] --Haliwell. [1913 Webster]
- To serve one the same sauce, to retaliate in the same kind. [Vulgar] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sauce'
From: GCIDE
- Sauce \Sauce\ (s[=o]s), n. [F.] (Fine Art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Sauce'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- Earth, yield me roots; Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate With thy most operant poison! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To make poignant; to give zest, flavor or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive. [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]
- 4. To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to. [Colloq. or Low] [1913 Webster]
- I'll sauce her with bitter words. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sauce'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alcohol,
- all sorts,
- allemande,
- answer back,
- aqua vitae,
- assemblage,
- assortment,
- audacity,
- back talk,
- backchat,
- booze,
- bourguignonne,
- brass,
- brazenness,
- broad spectrum,
- brown sauce,
- budge,
- butter,
- cataplasm,
- cheek,
- cheekiness,
- Colbert,
- condiment,
- conglomeration,
- corpse reviver,
- cream sauce,
- crush,
- crust,
- dash,
- dental pulp,
- disrespect,
- disrespectfulness,
- drink,
- duck sauce,
- egg sauce,
- espagnole,
- firewater,
- flavor,
- French dressing,
- gall,
- gallimaufry,
- gravy,
- green sauce,
- grog,
- hash,
- hint,
- hodgepodge,
- hooch,
- hotchpot,
- hotchpotch,
- impertinence,
- impudence,
- infusion,
- inkling,
- insolence,
- intimation,
- Italian dressing,
- jaw,
- juice,
- jumble,
- likker,
- lip,
- Lorenzo dressing,
- magpie,
- marinara,
- mash,
- mayonnaise,
- medicine,
- medley,
- melange,
- mess,
- mingle-mangle,
- miscellany,
- mishmash,
- mix,
- mixed bag,
- mole,
- mouth,
- mush,
- nerve,
- odds and ends,
- olio,
- olla podrida,
- omnium-gatherum,
- paper pulp,
- paprika sauce,
- paste,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- patchwork,
- pepper,
- pepper sauce,
- pertness,
- pith,
- plaster,
- porridge,
- potpourri,
- poulette,
- poultice,
- provoke,
- pudding,
- pulp,
- pulp lead,
- pulpwood,
- rag pulp,
- ravigote sauce,
- remoulade sauce,
- Ritz sauce,
- roux,
- Russian dressing,
- salad,
- salad dressing,
- salmagundi,
- salt,
- sass,
- sassiness,
- sauciness,
- savor,
- scramble,
- season,
- seasoning,
- shade,
- shallot sauce,
- smack,
- smash,
- Smitane,
- snake medicine,
- Soubise,
- soupcon,
- spice,
- sponge,
- sprinkling,
- squash,
- stew,
- suggestion,
- sulfate pulp,
- sulfite pulp,
- suspicion,
- sweet-and-sour sauce,
- taint,
- talk back,
- tartar sauce,
- tempering,
- thought,
- tiger milk,
- tinct,
- tincture,
- tinge,
- tint,
- touch,
- trace,
- vestige,
- vinaigrette,
- what you will,
- white lead,
- wood pulp
Words containing 'Sauce'
- Sauced,
- Saucing,
- Bercy sauce,
- Caper sauce,
- Hollandaise sauce,
- Jack sauce,
- Mint sauce,
- Tabasco sauce,
- aioli sauce,
- allemande sauce,
- anchovy sauce,
- apple sauce,
- apricot sauce,
- barbecue sauce,
- bechamel sauce,
- bourguignon sauce,
- bread sauce,
- brown sauce,
- burgundy sauce,
- cheese sauce,
- chili sauce,
- chocolate sauce,
- cocktail sauce,
- cranberry sauce,
- cream sauce,
- curry sauce,
- duck sauce,
- fudge sauce,
- garlic sauce,
- hard sauce,
- hoisin sauce,
- horseradish sauce,
- hot sauce,
- hungarian sauce,
- hunter's sauce,
- lyonnaise sauce,
- mornay sauce,
- mushroom sauce,
- mustard sauce,
- newburg sauce,
- paprika sauce,
- pasta sauce,
- peach sauce,
- pepper sauce,
- plum sauce,
- remoulade sauce,
- sauce albert,
- sauce chausseur,
- sauce espagnole,
- sauce louis,
- sauce verte,
- sauce vinaigrette,
- seafood sauce,
- shrimp sauce,
- soy sauce,
- spaghetti sauce,
- steak sauce,
- taco sauce,
- tartar sauce,
- tartare sauce,
- tomato sauce,
- white sauce,
- wine sauce,
- worcester sauce,
- worcestershire sauce,
- Sauce velout'e,
- Sauce-alone,
- To serve one the same sauce,
- bolognese pasta sauce,
- brown onion sauce,
- chinese brown sauce,
- mushroom wine sauce,
- white onion sauce,
- hot-fudge sauce