Word Meanings - SAUCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
pickle, fr. L. salsus salted, salt, p.p. of salire to salt, fr. sal 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.
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pickle, fr. L. salsus salted, salt, p.p. of salire to salt, fr. sal 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. High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies. Sir S. Baker. 2. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat. 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. "Stewed apple sauce." Mrs. Lincoln . 4. Sauciness; impertinence. Haliwell. To serve one the same sauce, to retaliate in the same kind.
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- SAUCEPAN
A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan. - SAUCE
pickle, fr. L. salsus salted, salt, p.p. of salire to salt, fr. sal 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. - CONDIMENT
Something used to give relish to food, and to gratify the taste; a pungment and appetizing substance, as pepper or mustard; seasoning. As for radish and the like, they are for condiments, and not for nourishment. Bacon. - SAUCER
1. A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table. 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 flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken - SEASONER
One who, or that which, seasons, or gives a relish; a seasoning. - SEASONAL
Of or pertaining to the seasons. Seasonal dimorphism , the condition of having two distinct varieties which appear at different seasons, as certain species of butterflies in which the spring brood differs from the summer or autumnal brood. - PRESERVER
1. One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends, from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or character of another. Shak. 2. One who makes preserves of fruit. Game preserver. See under Game. - SEASONLESS
Without succession of the seasons. - SEASONAGE
A seasoning. outh. - SAUCE-ALONE
Jack-by-the-hedge. See under Jack. - PICKLE
See PICLE - SEASONABLE
Occurring in good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain. Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction. Ecclus. xxxv. 20. -- Sea"son*a*ble*ness, - SEASONING
1. The act or process by which anything is seasoned. 2. That which is added to any species of food, to give it a higher relish, as salt, spices, etc.; a condiment. 3. Hence, something added to enhance enjoyment or relieve dullness; as, wit is the - PICKLE-HERRING
1. A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring. Shak. 2. A merry-andrew; a buffoon. Addison. - SAUCEBOX
A saucy, impudent person; especially, a pert child. Saucebox, go, meddle with your lady's fan, And prate not here! A. Brewer. - PRESERVE
1. To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect. O Lord, thou preserved man and beast. Ps. xxxvi. 6. Now, good angels preserve the king. Shak. 2. To save from decay by the use of some - PICKLED
Preserved in a pickle. - PICKLER
One who makes pickles. - SEASON
fr. L. satio a sowing, a planting, fr. serere, satum, to sow, plant; 1. One of the divisions of the year, marked by alternations in the length of day and night, or by distinct conditions of temperature, moisture, etc., caused mainly by the relative - HOLLANDAISE SAUCE; HOLLANDAISE
A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar. - ATELETS SAUCE; SAUCE AUX HATELETS
A sauce used for covering bits of meat, small birds, or fish, strung on skewers for frying. - TABASCO SAUCE
A kind of very pungent sauce made from red peppers. - PICLE; PICKLE
A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close. - UNSEASON
1. To make unseasoned; to deprive of seasoning. 2. To strike unseasonably; to affect disagreeably or unfavorably. Why do I send this rustic madrigal, That may thy tuneful ear unseason quite Spenser. - TEA-SAUCER
A small saucer in which a teacup is set. - HIGH-SEASONED
Enriched with spice and condiments; hence, exciting; piquant. - MINT SAUCE
1. A sauce of vinegar and sugar flavored with spearmint leaves. 2. Money.