Sauce n.
 1. A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc. “Poignant sauce.”
    High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies.   --Sir S. Baker.
 2. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]
    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.   --Beverly.
 3. Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc. [U.S.] “Stewed apple sauce.”
 4. Sauciness; impertinence. [Low.]
 To serve one the same sauce, to retaliate in the same kind. [Vulgar]