Noun

(en noun)

An item of furniture used to sit on or in comprising a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.

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* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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Chairperson.

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(music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.

(rail transport) Blocks that support and hold railroad track in position, and similar devices.

(chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.

The electric chair.

A distinguished professorship at a university.

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An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.

A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.

(Shakespeare)

* (Alexander Pope)

Think what an equipage thou hast in air, / And view with scorn two pages and a chair .

Noun

A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food.

apple sauce'''; mint '''sauce

(UK, Australia) tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in:

[meat] pie and [tomato] sauce

Alcohol, booze.

*

Maybe you should lay off the sauce .

(bodybuilding) Anabolic steroids.

(art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

(internet slang) used when requesting the source of an image.

(dated) Cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass.

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Vegetables.

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(obsolete, UK, US, dialect) Any garden vegetables eaten with meat.

* Beverly

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.

(Forby)

(Bartlett)