SPRUCE
\spɹˈuːs], \spɹˈuːs], \s_p_ɹ_ˈuː_s]\
Definitions of SPRUCE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The wood or timber of the spruce tree.
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Prussia leather; pruce.
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Neat, without elegance or dignity; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons.
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Sprightly; dashing.
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To dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce.
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To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up.
By Oddity Software
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A fir tree of the pine family, or its wood.
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Smart; trim; neat.
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To dress smartly; to arrange in a tidy manner: often followed by up.
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Sprucely.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Sprucely.
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Smart: neat.
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To trim or dress in a spruce manner, or with affected or finical neatness: to prink or prank. "To spruce his plumes."-Dr. H. More.
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To dress one's self with affected neatness.
By Daniel Lyons
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Sprucely.
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To make oneself spruce.
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Having a smart, trim appearance.
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A cone bearing evergreen tree also, its wood.
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Sprucefir.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. [Old English] A coniferous tree, of the genus Abies, of several species, especially the Norway Spruce, which yields the valuable timber known as white deal; also, the North American or black spruce, the timber of which is used for yards and spars.
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