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sauce /ˈsɔs, ||ˈsæs ||/
醬油,調味料,果醬(vt.)調味,使增加趣味
Sauce n.
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.”
High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies. --Sir S. Baker.
2. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]
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.
3. Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc. [U.S.] “Stewed apple sauce.”
4. Sauciness; impertinence. [Low.]
To serve one the same sauce, to retaliate in the same kind. [Vulgar]
Sauce v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sauced p. pr. & vb. n. Saucing ]
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 n. Fine Art A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
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sauce
n : flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an
accompaniment to food
v 1: behave saucy or impudently towards
2: dress (food) with a relish
3: add zest or flavor to, make more interesting; "sauce the
roast"