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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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SAUCE, n. [L. salsus, salt, from sal.]
SAUCE, v.t.
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."
Chaucer.
High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies. Sir S. Baker. Any garden vegetables eaten with
meat.
[Prov. Eng. *** Colloq. U.S.] Forby. Bartlett.
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. Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other
food as a relish] as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce,
etc.
[U.S.] "Stewed apple sauce." Mrs. Lincoln (Cook
Book). Sauciness; impertinence.
[Low.]
Haliwell.
To serve one the same sauce, to retaliate in the same kind. [Vulgar] To accompany with
something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing
condiments; to season; to flavor.
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.
[R.]
Earth, yield me roots; To make poignant; to give zest, flavor or
interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.
Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings. Sir P. Sidney. Thou sayest his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings. Shak. To treat with bitter, pert, or tart
language; to be impudent or saucy to.
[Colloq. or Low]
I'll sauce her with bitter words. Shak. A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading
with the stump.
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