(Vulgarly pronounced [sass].) Culinary vegetables and roots eaten with flesh.--Webster. This word is provincial in various parts of England in the same sense. Forby defines it as "any sort of vegetable eaten with flesh-meat."--Norfolk Glossary. Garden-stuff, and garden-ware, are the usual terms in England.
Roots, herbs, vine-fruits, and salad-flowers--they dish up in various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt.--Beverly's Hist. of Virginia.