Sauce (ss), v. t. [Cf. F. saucer.] [imp. & p. p. Sauced (sst); p. pr. &
vb. n. Saucing (s"sng).] 1. To accompany with something intended to
give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing condiments; to season;
to flavor.
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.]
Earth, yield me roots; Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his
palate With thy most operant poison!
Shak.
3. To make poignant; to give zest, flavor or interest to; to set off;
to vary and render attractive.
Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.
Sir P. Sidney.
Thou sayest his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings.
Shak.
4. To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or
saucy to. [Colloq. or Low]
I'll sauce her with bitter words.
Shak.
||Sauce (ss), n. [F.] (Fine Art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing
||or in shading with the stump.
Sauce"-a*lone` (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) Jack-by-the-hedge.
See under Jack.
Sauce"box` (?), n. [See Sauce, and Saucy.] A saucy, impudent person;
especially, a pert child.
Saucebox, go, meddle with your lady's fan, And prate not here!
A. Brewer.
Sauce"pan` (?), n. A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is
prepared over a fire; a stewpan.
Sau"cer (?), n. [F. saucière, from sauce. See Sauce.] 1. A small pan or
vessel in which sauce was set on a table. [Obs.] Bacon.
2. A small dish, commonly deeper than a plate, in which a cup is set at
table.
3. Something resembling a saucer in shape. Specifically: (a) A flat,
shallow caisson for raising sunken ships. (b) A shallow socket for the
pivot of a capstan.
Sau"ci*ly (?), adv. In a saucy manner; impudently; with impertinent
boldness. Addison.
Sau"ci*ness, n. The quality or state of being saucy; that which is
saucy; impertinent boldness; contempt of superiors; impudence.
Your sauciness will jest upon my love.
Shak.
Syn. -- Impudence; impertinence; rudeness; insolence. See Impudence.
{ ||Sau`cis`son" (?), Sau`cisse" (?) }, n. [F., fr. saucisse sausage.
See Sausage.] 1. (Mining or Gun.) A long and slender pipe or bag, made
of cloth well pitched, or of leather, filled with powder, and used to
communicate fire to mines, caissons, bomb chests, etc.