n. A small dish or pan in which sauce is set on the table; a sauce-dish.n. A small, round, shallow vessel, a little deeper than a plate, upon which a cup, as a tea- or coffee-cup, is placed, and which is designed to retain any liquid which may be spilled from the cup.n. Something resembling a saucer.n. A tobacco adapted by large absorptive capacity to take the ‘sauces’ in vogue in Continental Europe, which are said to consist chiefly of salt, sal-ammoniac, and sugar. See sauce, 6. A German and a Dutch saucer are known to the trade, consisting of varieties of the heavy export type chiefly from Virginia.