Sauce

saws, n. a liquid seasoning for food, consisting of salt, .: fruit stewed with sugar: a relish: impudence.— v.t. to put sauce in to relish: to make poignant: to gratify the palate: to treat with bitter or pert language: to make suffer.— ns. Sauce′-alone′ , a cruciferous plant with a strong garlic smell, Jack-by-the-hedge; Sauce′-boat , a ve el with a spout for holding sauce; Sauce′-box , an impudent person; Sauce′-cray′on , a soft, black pastel used for backgrounds; Sauce′pan , a pan in which sauce or any small thing is boiled; Sauce′pan-fish , the king-crab.— Poor man's sauce , hunger; Serve one with the same sauce , to requite one injury with another, to make to suffer. [Fr. sauce —L. salsa , neut. pl. of sals us , pa.p. of salīre , salsum , to salt— sal , salt.]