Lexic.us

Definition of Saucer

1. Noun. Something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate. "The moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky"

2. Noun. A small shallow dish for holding a cup at the table.

3. Noun. Directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation.

4. Noun. A disk used in throwing competitions.

Definition of Saucer

1. n. A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table.

Definition of Saucer

1. Noun. A small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips. ¹

2. Noun. An object round and gently curved (shaped like a saucer). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Saucer

1. a small, shallow dish [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saucer

sauce for the goose sauce verte sauce vinaigrette sauceboat sauceboats saucebox sauceboxes sauced sauceless saucelike

saucepan saucepanlike saucepans saucepot saucepots saucer (current term) saucer-eyed saucer-shaped cataract saucer eyes saucer magnolia

saucerful saucerfuls saucerization saucerlike saucers saucersful sauces sauch

Literary usage of Saucer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century (1902)
"There 's a great big the thought had just occurred to her, " you 'd empty bedroom up above the porch that 's like to make the saucer-pies yourself? ..."

2. Pottery and Porcelain of All Times and Nations: With Tables of Factory and by William Cowper Prime (1878)
"In examining marked specimens of Venice, care must IBS. Venice Cup and saucer: Cozzi be taken to distinguish the anchor mark portal Decoration in red. ..."

3. Practical Floriculture: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of Florists by Peter Henderson (1911)
"-saucer SYSTEM" OF PROPAGATION. The above methods of propagating by cuttings are such is are now practised by commercial florists who have all the needed ..."

4. Practical Floriculture: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of Florists by Peter Henderson (1906)
""saucer SYSTEM" OF PROPAGATION. ... the requirements for plants are unusually large, as the " saucer System " of propagation will answer every purpose, ..."

5. The Theory of Sound by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1894)
"if we introduce the value of H from (40), and express <r by me of the volume density p. In like manner for the saucer of 120°, from (44), ..."

6. The Pottery and Porcelain of the United States: An Historical Review of by Edwin Atlee Barber (1893)
"Illustration 105 shows one of these undecorated pieces, a graceful lily- shaped cup and saucer. In addition to vases and table pieces, they make many fancy ..."

7. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... or saucer-shaped, the expanded and flattened sterile cells forming a kiml of wing, or at length this incurved at base, or also at summit, ami so nearly ..."

8. The Century (1902)
"There 's a great big the thought had just occurred to her, " you 'd empty bedroom up above the porch that 's like to make the saucer-pies yourself? ..."

9. Pottery and Porcelain of All Times and Nations: With Tables of Factory and by William Cowper Prime (1878)
"In examining marked specimens of Venice, care must IBS. Venice Cup and saucer: Cozzi be taken to distinguish the anchor mark portal Decoration in red. ..."

10. Practical Floriculture: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of Florists by Peter Henderson (1911)
"-saucer SYSTEM" OF PROPAGATION. The above methods of propagating by cuttings are such is are now practised by commercial florists who have all the needed ..."

11. Practical Floriculture: A Guide to the Successful Cultivation of Florists by Peter Henderson (1906)
""saucer SYSTEM" OF PROPAGATION. ... the requirements for plants are unusually large, as the " saucer System " of propagation will answer every purpose, ..."

12. The Theory of Sound by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1894)
"if we introduce the value of H from (40), and express <r by me of the volume density p. In like manner for the saucer of 120°, from (44), ..."

13. The Pottery and Porcelain of the United States: An Historical Review of by Edwin Atlee Barber (1893)
"Illustration 105 shows one of these undecorated pieces, a graceful lily- shaped cup and saucer. In addition to vases and table pieces, they make many fancy ..."

14. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... or saucer-shaped, the expanded and flattened sterile cells forming a kiml of wing, or at length this incurved at base, or also at summit, ami so nearly ..."

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