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Spruce Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Spruce?
[n] any coniferous tree of the genus Picea
[n] light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork [adj] marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [v] dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion; "He spruced up for the party" [v] make neat, smart, or trim; "Spruce up your house for Spring"; "titivate the child" Synonyms | Synonyms for Spruce: dapper | dashing | fashionable | jaunty | natty | raffish | rakish | slick up | slick up | smart | smarten up | smarten up | snappy | spiff up | spiffy | spruce up | spruce up | stylish | titivate | tittivate Related Terms | Find terms related to Spruce: See Also | beautify | black spruce | Brewer's spruce | Colorado blue spruce | Colorado spruce | conifer | coniferous tree | eastern spruce | embellish | Engelmann spruce | Engelmann's spruce | genus Picea | groom | neaten | Norway spruce | oriental spruce | Picea | Picea abies | Picea breweriana | Picea engelmannii | Picea glauca | Picea mariana | Picea obovata | Picea orientalis | Picea pungens | Picea rubens | prettify | red spruce | Siberian spruce | silver spruce | spruce | spruce pine | weeping spruce | white spruce | wood | yellow spruce Spruce In Webster's Dictionary \Spruce\, n. [OE. Spruce or Pruse, Prussia, Prussian. So
named because it was first known as a native of Prussia, or
because its sprouts were used for making, spruce beer. Cf.
Spruce beer, below, {Spruce}, a.]
1. (Bot.) Any coniferous tree of the genus {Picea}, as the
Norway spruce ({P. excelsa}), and the white and black
spruces of America ({P. alba} and {P. nigra}), besides
several others in the far Northwest. See {Picea}.
2. The wood or timber of the spruce tree.
3. Prussia leather; pruce. [Obs.]
Spruce, a sort of leather corruptly so called for
Prussia leather. --E. Phillips.
{Douglas spruce} (Bot.), a valuable timber tree ({Pseudotsuga
Douglasii}) of Northwestern America.
{Essence of spruce}, a thick, dark-colored, bitterish, and
acidulous liquid made by evaporating a decoction of the
young branches of spruce.
{Hemlock spruce} (Bot.), a graceful coniferous tree ({Tsuga
Canadensis}) of North America. Its timber is valuable, and
the bark is largely used in tanning leather.
{Spruce beer}. [G. sprossenbier; sprosse sprout, shoot (akin
to E. sprout, n.) + bier beer. The word was changed into
spruce because the beer came from Prussia (OE. Spruce), or
because it was made from the sprouts of the spruce. See
{Sprout}, n., {Beer}, and cf. {Spruce}, n.] A kind of beer
which is tinctured or flavored with spruce, either by
means of the extract or by decoction.
{Spruce grouse}. (Zo["o]l.) Same as {Spruce partridge},
below.
{Spruce leather}. See {Spruce}, n., 3.
{Spruce partridge} (Zo["o]l.), a handsome American grouse
({Dendragapus Canadensis}) found in Canada and the
Northern United States; -- called also {Canada grouse}.
\Spruce\, a. [Compar. {Sprucer}; superl. {Sprucest}] [Perhaps fr. spruce a sort of leather from Prussia, which was an article of finery. See {Spruce}, n.] 1. Neat, without elegance or dignity; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons. ``Neat and spruce array.'' --Remedy of Love. 2. Sprightly; dashing. [Obs.] ``Now, my spruce companions.'' --Shak. He is so spruce that he can never be genteel. --Tatler. Syn: Finical; neat; trim. See {Finical}. -- {Sruce"ly}, adv. -- {Spruce"ness}, n. \Spruce\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spruced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sprucing}.] To dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce. \Spruce\, v. i. To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up. |
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