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noun. Any of various coniferous evergreen trees of the genus Picea, having flattened or four-angled needlelike leaves, a conic shape, pendulous cones, and soft wood often used for paper pulp.

noun. Any of various similar or related trees.

noun. The wood of any of these trees.

noun. A grayish green to dark greenish black.

adjective. Neat, trim, and smart in appearance.

intransitive verb. To make neat and trim.

intransitive verb. To make oneself neat and smart in appearance.

noun. Prussian leather. Compare Pruce.

noun. A coniferous tree of the genus Picea; a spruce-fir.

noun. P. Engelmanni, the most valuable timber-tree of the central Rocky Mountain region, where it forms extensive forests. Its wood is of a white or pale-yellow color, light and soft, in Colorado affording lumber, fuel, and charcoal. The bark is rich in tannin, which is locally utilized.

noun. P. pungens, a rare and local mountain species of the western United States. Also called blue spruce, Colorado blue spruce.

Smart in dress and appearance; affecting neatness or dapperness, especially in dress; trim; hence often, with a depreciatory force, dandified; smug.

Over-fastidious; excessively nice; finical.

Synonyms Foppish, etc. (see finical), smart, jaunty, nice, dandyish.

To make spruce; trim or dress so as to present a smart appearance: sometimes followed by up.

To brown, as the crust of bread, by heating the oven too much.

To become spruce; assume or affect an air of smartness in dress: often followed by up.

noun. An abbreviation of spruce-beer.

intransitive verb. To dress one's self with affected neatness.

transitive verb. To dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce; -- often used with up.

adjective. Neat, without elegance or dignity; smart; trim; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons.

adjective. Sprightly; dashing.

noun. 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.

noun. The wood or timber of the spruce tree.

noun. Prussia leather; pruce.

noun. a valuable timber tree (Pseudotsuga Douglasii) of Northwestern America.

noun. a thick, dark-colored, bitterish, and acidulous liquid made by evaporating a decoction of the young branches of spruce.

noun. a graceful coniferous tree (Tsuga Canadensis) of North America. Its timber is valuable, and the bark is largely used in tanning leather.

noun. A kind of beer which is tinctured or flavored with spruce, either by means of the extract or by decoction.

noun. Same as Spruce partridge, below.

noun. See Spruce, n., 3.

noun. a handsome American grouse (Dendragapus Canadensis) found in Canada and the Northern United States; -- called also Canada grouse.

noun. Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.

noun. The wood of a spruce.

noun. Made of the wood of the spruce.

adjective. Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).

verb. To arrange neatly; tidy up.

verb. ) To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).

verb. To tease.

noun. any coniferous tree of the genus Picea

adjective. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners

verb. make neat, smart, or trim

verb. dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion

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

"The "black" or "double spruce" (_Pinus nigra_), is that species from the twigs of which is extracted the essence that gives its peculiar flavour to the well-known "_spruce beer_.""

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