spruce

UK /spɹuːs/ US /spɹuːs/
name 5noun 4verb 3adj 1

Definitions

noun

1

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

2

The wood of a spruce.

3

Made of the wood of the spruce.

That spruce table is beautiful!

4

Prussian leather; pruce.

adj

1

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

Hovv often vvould the Svvaines prepare their Morrice & their May / To haue a ſight of her, vvhen all enamoured vvent their vvay? / The ſprevvſeſt Citie-Lads for her vvould faine the Countrie-aire, / And that their prouder Girles had but adultrate beauties ſvvaire, […]

[A] baker's boy in a white apron and blue jumpers went by carrying a basket of bread on his head; and from the nearby tobacconist's, a spruce young lieutenant dressed in a black uniform emerged lighting a cigarette.

verb

1

To arrange neatly; tidy up.

2

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

3

To tease.

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