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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.

Jack-by-the-hedge. See under Jack.

A saucy, impudent person; especially, a pert child. Saucebox, go, meddle with your lady's fan, And prate not here! A. Brewer.

A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan.

A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table. [Obs.] Bacon.

A sauce (such as egg and bread crumbs) used for covering bits of meat, small birds, or fish, strung on skewers for frying.

A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar.

A sauce of vinegar and sugar flavored with spearmint leaves.

A kind of very pungent sauce made from red peppers.

A small saucer in which a teacup is set.

A white sauce or stock made by boiling down ham, veal, beef, fowl, bouillon, etc., then adding soup stock, seasoning, vegetables, and thickening, and again boiling and straining.

Cup-shaped; saucer-shaped; acetabuliform.

Shaped like a shallow; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx. Gray.

B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root. [Also spelt berberry.]

A rich, white sauce, prepared with butter and cream.

A white sauce of fat, broth, and vegetables, used esp. for braised meat.

A sort of fricassee with white sauce, variously made of capon, fish, etc. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A small saucer of clay for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier.

A table sauce made from mushrooms, tomatoes, walnuts, etc. [Written also ketchup.]

A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.; also, the plant producing it (several species of Vaccinum or Oxycoccus.) The high cranberry or cranberry tree is a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to distinguish it.