Definition of: sauce

(sôs) noun
1. An appetizing dressing or liquid relish for food; loosely, any appetizing garnish of a meal; formerly, any condiment, as salt, pepper.
2. A dish of fruit pulp stewed and sweetened: cranberry sauce.
3. Colloq. Table vegetables, as roots or greens: also garden sauce.
4. Colloq. Pert or impudent language.
—v.t. sauced, sauc·ing
1. To flavor with sauce; season.
2. To give zest or piquancy to.
3. Colloq. To be saucy to. [<OF <LL salsa, orig. fem. of L salsus salted, pp. of salire salt <sal salt]