Middle English Dictionary Entry
saucer(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | saucer(e n. Also saucir, sauser(e, sausir, sausar, sausǒur, soucer, souser, salser & (errors) sawsesere, saunser. |
| Etymology | OF saussiere, saus(s)er, saucer & L salsārium, AL salsōrium, saucerium, sauserium. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A saucer, shallow dish; ?also, a saltcellar; (b) in poetic comparison and fig. context; (c) in cpds. & combs.: ~ brerd, saucer rim; ~ ful, a saucerful; ~ molde, a mold for a saucer; galeie ~, ?a large or deep saucer.
Associated quotations
a
- (1348) Doc.in Welch Hist.Pewterers Lond.3 : Be it vnderstonde that al maner vessells of peauter as disshes, Saucers, platers..be made of fyne peauter.
- c1350 Cmb.Ee.4.20.Nominale (Cmb Ee.4.20)503 : Dobler: saucer of lynde.
- (1390) in Rec.B.Nottingham 1246 : Tres discos, ij platers, unum saucer electri, xij d.
- (1396-7) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99214 : Item, 9 dublers, 9 disshes, et 9 sawsars de mapill.
- a1400 Bevis (Eg 2862)85/1641 : Of soden barly a ful sawcere.
- (1408) Invent.Jarrow in Sur.Soc.2981 : In coquina..xij salsers.
- a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)661/17 : Sallarium [?read: Salsarium]: sowser.
- ?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)455 : Dyppe a saucer therin and strawe the dysshes therwith be the sydes.
- (1438) Acc.Bk.Carpenter Co.2 : So paide For iij doz. platers and iiij doz. dysches, xxv saunsers of pewt.
- (1438) Doc.in Welch Hist.Pewterers Lond.12 : xij florentyn disshes and xij florentyne saucers of the grettest assice weinge xiij lb.
- (1439) Liber Scac.in Archaeol.2137 : ij grete Chargeours, vj lasse Chargeours, xl Disshes of dyvers sortes, and xxiij Sausers gilt.
- (1443) Will York in Sur.Soc.30131 : I bequethe..vj saucers of silver with armes, bought of Witham.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)22 : Dresse it Flat with þe backe of a Sawcere.
- a1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)121/471 : Þou maist take sayme of lard in a sawcer & anoynte þe corn with a feþer or with a splent of tre.
- (a1451) Will York in Sur.Soc.4598 : Item, j peutir sawsour, iij d.
- c1470(?1458) Wey Prevision (Bod 565)5 : Take with yow a lytyl cawdren and fryyng pan, dysches, platerrys, sawserys of tre, cuppys of glas, a grater for brede, and such nessaryes.
- (1463) Will Bury in Camd.4923 : I wille that Jenette, my nece, haue..viij sawsers of old vessell.
- (1472) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99247 : Item, vj salserez.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)495 : In a sawcere afore youre souerayne semely ye hit [custard] sett whan hym likethe to atast.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)43 : Put it in a bolle and temper it up withe wyne and bruse it with a saucer as soft as ye wille, and serue it.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)45 : Tak out the batter with a saucer and let it ryn into the grece..then fry it welle.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)108a : A Sawsser: Acetabulum.
- a1500 Hrl.1002 Gloss.(Hrl 1002)626 : Sawsesere [glossing:] Salsarium.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)5/18 : Take..a sauser wiþ clene water and þe white of an eye and menge hit wel to-geder.
- -?-(1459) Will in Som.RS 16188 : [One bowl of silver gilt] standyng, [with a cover..twelve silver] sawceres.
b
- a1425(?a1350) 7 Sages(2) (Glb E.9)3110 : With eghen þat war ful bright and clere And brade ilkone als a sawsere.
- a1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)39/32 : Seyntes couden ete wel jnow þoow þe powder box bleuȝ not on here sawser.
c
- (1435) Let.Bk.Lond.K (Gldh LetBk K)66 : [A] grete saucer moolde.
- (1438) Doc.in Welch Hist.Pewterers Lond.12 : xij of the grettest Galey disshes & Galey saucers a dosen weinge xij lb.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)3/11 : Drynke þer-of at morne a saucerfull calde and at euen als mekil hate.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)48 : With a sawcere brerde, go round as þe comade lyith & kutte hem.
- a1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)103/240 : Take..ij sauserful of womman mylke þat haþ a knaue childe withinne þre ȝere age.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)221/19 : Take þe iuce of calamynt a sawcyr full.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)114 : Take..soucer folle of þe jus of centorye.
- (c1451) Doc.in Welch Hist.Pewterers Lond.15 : Item, j c Sawsyrmolde..j medyll sawsyr molde..j holow sawsyr molde..j Saly sawsyr molde.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)96a/a : R[ecipe] a saucerful of mustard.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (a1450) Doc.in Scrope Castle Combe67 note 1 : 4 sausers d'argent m[ar]ches des dits armes.
Note: Additional quote, sense (a) -- in French context and presumably to be regarded as French (see AND s.v. saucer(2).)
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. saucer.