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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

... into slate again, and the night had come. It was but twenty-four hours since they had sat in their canvas chairs discussing politics by starlight on the saloon deck of the Korosko; only twelve since they had breakfasted there and had started spruce and fresh upon their last pleasure trip. What a world of fresh impressions had come upon them since then! How rudely they had been jostled out of their take-it-for-granted complacency! The same shimmering ...

— The Tragedy of The Korosko • Arthur Conan Doyle

... to our ornamental plantings, and aid in enriching the winter coloring. The Austrian pine and the Scotch pine are welcome additions to our own pine family. In these days of economic chemistry and a deficient rag supply, every reader of these words is probably in close proximity to an important spruce product—paper. The manufacturers say, with hand on heart, that they do not use much wood pulp, but when one has passed a great paper-mill flanked on all sides by piles of spruce logs, with no bales of rags in sight anywhere, he is tempted to think otherwise! Modern forestry ...

— Getting Acquainted with the Trees • J. Horace McFarland

... him acrost the flat, with their tongues out; so he soopled himself up a bit with a few jumps and made for that there big down spruce. He lands on the trunk and runs along it to where the top begins. He has it all worked out. He's saying: "If this here is a joke, all right; but if it ain't a joke I better have some place back of me ...

— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

... to see her for a moment! To leave my work and go without food was the least of it! I must traverse the streets of Paris without getting splashed, run to escape showers, and reach her rooms at last, as neat and spruce as any of the coxcombs about her. For a poet and a distracted wooer the difficulties of this task were endless. My happiness, the course of my love, might be affected by a speck of mud upon my only white waistcoat! ...

— The Magic Skin • Honore de Balzac

... so snug and homelike. She paused before she came to the door, to watch the smoke curling up from the chimney straight as a column, for there was not a breath of air stirring. The sun was almost gone, and the strong bluish light was settling on everything, giving even the green spruce-trees a ...

— Northern Lights • Gilbert Parker

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