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Spruce   /sprus/   Listen
Spruce

noun
1.
Light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork.
2.
Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea.
verb
(past & past part. spruced; pres. part. sprucing)
1.
Make neat, smart, or trim.  Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce up, titivate, tittivate.  "Titivate the child"
2.
Dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion.  Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spruce up.
adjective
(compar. sprucer; superl. sprucest)
1.
Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners.  Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy.  "A jaunty red hat"



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"Spruce" Quotes from Famous Books



... whose low limbs dangle the tempting wares, and a stump serves as a chopping-block. Under the shrubbery, where the sun cannot penetrate, are stored home-made firkins full of yellow butter, and great cheeses, and heaps of substantial home-baked bread. Kegs of hard cider and spruce beer and perhaps more potent brews are abroach, and behind the haggling and jesting and bustle you may catch the sound of muskets or the whoop of the Indians from afar. Meanwhile, in the settlements, all manner of industries were stimulated, and a great number ...
— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne
... break bark and make an awful scratching with their claws sometimes; my bare feet were soundless. Up and up I went, slowly, for it was dreadfully rough. They were not on the sofa. I could see plainly through the needles. Then I saw the spruce would have been better, for they were standing in front of the parlour door and Peter had one hand on the knob. His other arm was around my sister Sally. Breathlessly I leaned as far as I could, ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter
... loft above, and a giant chimney, with a crackling blaze of fire to combat the bleakness of the view through the uncurtained windows—Mirror Lake. It was a failure as a mirror that day, veiled with snow, and the white birches fringing it showed bare and cold among the warm green of spruce ...
— The Wishing Moon • Louise Elizabeth Dutton
... be it spoken, thy horses at your owne proper costs and charges shall kneed vp to the knees all the while thou art here in spruce beere & lubeck licour. Not a dog thou bringst with thee but shall be banketted with rhenish wine and sturgion. On our shoulders we weare no lamb skin or miniuer like these academikes, yet wee can drinke to the confusion of all thy ...
— The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton - With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse • Thomas Nash
... stream, they were not frightened. But when they began to grow tired, and the trail led them into a dark forest, where the sun came through the thick boughs and shone only in patches of light upon the slippery spruce ...
— The Swiss Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins


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