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Saucer   /sˈɔsər/   Listen
noun
Saucer  n.  
1.
A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table. (Obs.)
2.
A small dish, commonly deeper than a plate, in which a cup is set at table.
3.
Something resembling a saucer in shape. Specifically:
(a)
A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
(b)
A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.






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"Saucer" Quotes from Famous Books



... of us and hath driven us into the uttermost of the seas of the world." Then he came down from the mast-head and opening his sea-chest, pulled out a bag of blue cotton, from which he took a powder like ashes. This he set in a saucer wetted with a little water and, after waiting a short time, smelt and tasted it; and then he took out of the chest a booklet, wherein he read awhile and said weeping, "Know, O ye passengers, that in this book is a marvellous matter, denoting that whoso cometh hither shall surely ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton

... off, and, swimming in a saucer of cream, they were added to the dainty little lunch that Mrs. ...
— What Can She Do? • Edward Payson Roe

... box was open, the hedgehog was actively perambulating its dark prison, but the moment it was touched it became a ball, in which form it was rolled out on to the rough floor close to a flower-pot saucer of bread and milk, smuggled up ...
— Quicksilver - The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel • George Manville Fenn

... of wearisome and broken sleep makes small difference to the spirits, and when he had washed as well as he could by the aid of a cream-jug full of water and a saucer, and a towel handkerchief, and without the aid of soap, he dressed, and sallied out with the intent to lose himself in Paris. There is nothing so exhilarating as the first sight of a foreign city, and Paul wandered on and on, ...
— Despair's Last Journey • David Christie Murray

... or small-paned windows. There was not even comfort. The chairs were as new and shining as chairs could be; there was a "mission style" rocker, a golden-oak rocker, a cherry rocker, heavily upholstered. There was a walnut drop-head sewing-machine on which a pink saucer of some black liquid fly-poison stood. There was a "body Brussels" rug on the floor. Lastly, there was an oak sideboard, dusty, pretentious, with its mirror cut into small sections ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris


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