sauce

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A flavorful seasoning or relish served as an accompaniment to food, especially a liquid dressing or topping for food.
2. n. Stewed fruit, usually served with other foods.
3. n. Something that adds zest, flavor, or piquancy.
4. n. Informal Impudent speech or behavior; impertinence or sauciness.
5. n. Slang Alcoholic liquor.
6. v. To season or flavor with sauce.
7. v. To add piquancy or zest to.
8. v. Informal To be impertinent or impudent to.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A condiment, as salt or mustard; now, usually, an accompaniment to food, usually liquid or soft, and highly seasoned or flavored, eaten as a relish, an appetizer, or a digestive: as, mint-sauce; white sauce; lobster-sauce; sauce piquante.
2. n. Hence, specifically Garden vegetables or roots eaten with flesh-meat: also called garden-sauce.
3. n. Fruit stewed with sugar; a compote of fruit: as, apple-sauce.
4. n. Pertness; insolence; impudence, or pert or insolent language.
5. n. The soft green or yellowish substance of a lobster. See tomalley.
6. n. A mixture of flavoring ingredients used in the preparation of tobacco and snuff.
7. To add a sauce or relish to; season; flavor.
8. To gratify; tickle (the palate).
9. To intermix or accompany with anything that gives piquancy or relish; hence, to make pungent, tart, or sharp.
10. To be saucy or pert to; treat saucily, or with impertinence; scold.
11. To cut up; carve; prepare for the table.
12. To make to pay or suffer.

Wiktionary

1. n. A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food
2. n. cheek, impertinence
3. n. booze, alcohol
4. n. bodybuilding anabolic steroids
5. n. US, slang, 1800s Vegetables.
6. n. art A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
7. n. Internet slang Source; a term said when requesting the source of an image.
8. v. to add sauce to something
9. v. to act in a cheeky manner
10. prep. slang An intensifying suffix.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings
2. n. Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.
3. n. U.S. Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish
4. n. Low. Sauciness; impertinence.
5. v. To accompany with something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing condiments; to season; to flavor.
6. v. rare 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.
7. v. To make poignant; to give zest, flavor or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
8. v. Colloq. or Low To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.
9. n. (Fine Art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. dress (food) with a relish
2. v. add zest or flavor to, make more interesting
3. v. behave saucily or impudently towards
4. n. flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food