sauce (sas)

[Also dial. sa ; early mod. E. also sauce; E. souse ) = G. Dan. sauce = Sw. sauce, sås, Thei ete at here ese as the i mizt thanne, boute [but, without] salt other sauce or any semli drynk. William of Palerne (E. É. T. S.), 1. 1882. Also to know youre sawces for flesche conveniently, Hit provokithe a fyne apetide if sawce youre mete be bie. Babees Book (E. E. T. 8.), p. 151. The Sauce is costly, for it far exceeds the cates. Greene, Never Too Late. Sauce his palate With thy most operant poison. Shak ., T. of A., iv. 3. 24. 3. To intermix or accompany with anything that gives piquancy or relish; hence, to make pungent, tart, or sharp. Sorrow sauced with repentance. Spenser, Shep. Cal., March. His store of pleasures must be sauced with pain. Marlowe , Faustus, v. 4. 4. To be saucy or pert to; treat saucily, or with impertinence; scold. sauce her with bitter words. As fast as she answers thee with frowning looks, I'll Shak., As you Like it, iii. v. 69. 51. To cut up; carve; prepare for the table. Sauce that capon, sauce that playce. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 265. The bodie [of the slave sacrificed) they sauced and dre ed for a banquet about breake of day, after they had bid the Idoll good morrow with a small dance. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 810. 6. To make to pay or suffer. I'll make them pay; I'll sauce them: they have had my house a week at command; I have turned away my other guests;... I'll sauce them. Shak ., M. W. of W., iv. 3. 11.