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Spruce

noun

Light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork.

Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea.

verb

(past & past part. spruced; pres. part. sprucing)

Make neat, smart, or trim. Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce up, titivate, tittivate. "Titivate the child"

Dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion. Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spruce up.

adjective

(compar. sprucer; superl. sprucest)

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

... brandies of the trees, from 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 of women throughout ...

— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne

... filled. It had never looked handsomer. The rival factions had vied with each other in decorating it. Spruce and hemlock sprouted everywhere, and garlands of ground-ivy festooned walls and chancel. The delicious odor of balsam and of burning wax-candles was in the air. The people were all there in their Sunday clothes ...

— Children of the Tenements • Jacob A. Riis

... an' him wi't, an' there he was, clappin' his hands, an' stanin' juist like's he'd on a wid crinoline. You never heard sic a roostin' an' roarin' an' hear-hearin' an' hurrain'! I had to shut my een for fear o' bein' knokit deaf a'thegither. Stumpie Mertin jumpit up as spruce as gin he had baith his legs, instead o' only ane, an' forgettin' whaur he was, he glowered a' roond the wa' an' says, "Whaur's the ...

— My Man Sandy • J. B. Salmond

... more severe climate. In a lignite bed (a species of coal) found in nearly the same latitude as the forest growth just mentioned, we detect the presence of trees that grow only in cold northern climates, such as birch, mountain pine, larch, and spruce. And in some peat-bogs of Southern Europe belonging to this age are found willows now growing only in Spitzbergen, and some species of mosses that only thrive far to the north. It is quite evident that this deposit testifies to an altogether different climate from that indicated ...

— The Prehistoric World - Vanished Races • E. A. Allen

... of the younger group and led them through the garden to where some young spruce trees hid the wall. Here a surprise awaited them in the shape of two of the largest of the growing trees festooned with ribbons and laden with strange fruit in the shape of coloured toy balloons that bobbed about and tugged at their moorings as if anxious ...

— People of the Whirlpool • Mabel Osgood Wright

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