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.

* {{quote-book

, year = 1967 , first = Barbara , last = Sleigh , authorlink = Barbara Sleigh , title = (Jessamy) , edition = 1993 , location = Sevenoaks, Kent , publisher=Bloomsbury , isbn = 0 340 19547 9 , page = 28 , url = , passage = ‘I’ll have none of your sauce', young Jessamy. Just because you’ve been took up by the family you’ve no call to give yourself airs. You’re only the housekeeper’s niece, and cook-housekeeper at that, and don’t you forgrt it. You know full well I’m parlour maid, Matchett to the gentry, ''Miss'' Matchett to you – you little —!’ Jessamy broke in anxiously. ‘But I didn’t mean it for ' sauce , really I didn’t:’ }}

* {{quote-book

, year = 1967 , first = Barbara , last = Sleigh , authorlink = Barbara Sleigh , title = (Jessamy) , edition = 1993 , location = Sevenoaks, Kent , publisher=Bloomsbury , isbn = 0 340 19547 9 , page = 39 , url = , passage = ‘Well, you know what Matchett’s like! Just about bring herself to talk to me because I’m housemaid, but if the gardener’s boy so much as looks at ’er it’s sauce ,’ said Sarah. }}

Vegetables.

* {{quote-book

, year=1833 , author=(John Neal) , title=The Down-Easters, Volume 1 , passage=I wanted cabbage or potaters, or most any sort o' garden sarse … .}}

* {{quote-book

, year=1882 , author= , title=Peck's Sunshine , chapter=Unscrewing the Top of a Fruit Jar citation , passage=and all would be well only for a remark of a little boy who, when asked if he will have some more of the sauce , says he "don't want no strawberries pickled in kerosene."}}

(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)

Noun

A soft mixture, in particular:

# One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.

# One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.

# One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.

(physics) A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid

A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.

(obsolete) Pasta.

(mineralogy) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.