High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies.
--Sir S.
Baker.
2. 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.
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).
4. Sauciness; impertinence. [Low.] --Haliwell.
{To serve one the same sauce}, to retaliate in the same kind.
[Vulgar]
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.