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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SAUS'AGE, n. [L. salsus.]
The intestine of an animal stuffed with minced meat and seasoned.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings
2: a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon [syn: blimp, sausage balloon, sausage]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English sausige, from Anglo-French sauseche, saucis, from Late Latin salsicia, from Latin salsus salted — more at sauce Date: 15th century a highly seasoned minced meat (as pork) usually stuffed in casings of prepared animal intestine; also a link or patty of sausage

Britannica Concise

Highly seasoned minced meat, usually pork or beef, traditionally stuffed in casings of prepared animal intestine. Sausage has been known since ancient times. Some varieties came to be known by their city of origin: the frankfurter from Frankfurt am Main, bologna from Bologna, romano from Rome. Sausage meat may be fresh, smoked, or pickled. It may be mixed with other meats and additives such as cereals, vegetable starch, soy flour, preservatives, artificial colorings, and various spices. Casings may be intestine, paraffin-treated fabric bags, or synthetic sleeves of plastic or reconstituted collagen. All but dry (smoked) sausages require refrigerated storage. Cooked and dry sausages are ready to eat; fresh (and fresh-frozen) sausages must be cooked.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a minced pork, beef, or other meat seasoned and often mixed with other ingredients, encased in cylindrical form in a skin, for cooking and eating hot or cold. b a length of this. 2 a sausage-shaped object. Phrases and idioms: not a sausage colloq. nothing at all. sausage dog Brit. colloq. a dachshund. sausage machine 1 a sausage-making machine. 2 a relentlessly uniform process. sausage meat minced meat used in sausages or as a stuffing etc. sausage roll Brit. sausage meat enclosed in a pastry roll and baked. Etymology: ME f. ONF saussiche f. med.L salsicia f. L salsus: see SAUCE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sausage Sau"sage (?; 48), n. [F. saucisse, LL. salcitia, salsicia, fr. salsa. See Sauce.] 1. An article of food consisting of meat (esp. pork) minced and highly seasoned, and inclosed in a cylindrical case or skin usually made of the prepared intestine of some animal. 2. A saucisson. See Saucisson. --Wilhelm.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(sausages) A sausage consists of minced meat, usually pork, mixed with other ingredients and is contained in a tube made of skin or a similar material. ...sausages and chips. N-VAR

Foolish Dictionary

An aftermath of the dog-days.

Moby Thesaurus

Vienna sausage, bangers, black pudding, blood pudding, bologna, braunschweiger, frank, frankfurter, gooseliver, headcheese, hot dog, knockwurst, liver sausage, liverwurst, salami, saucisse, weenie, wiener, wienerwurst, wienie