spruceness

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The property of being spruce, of being neat and elegant
{n} neatness in dress
{i} neatness; being clean and trim and smart
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Being from a spruce tree
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The wood of a spruce
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(usually with up) to arrange neatly; tidy up
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(usually with up) to make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance)
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Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person)
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Made of the wood of the spruce
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{a} neat, nice, trim, clean
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{n} a kind of fir
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to tease
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to arrange neatly; tidy up
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marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"
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Someone who is spruce is very neat and smart in appearance. Chris was looking spruce in his stiff-collared black shirt and new short hair cut. a tree that grows in northern countries and has short leaves shaped like needles (spruce fir , from Spruce , former European country, now part of Germany (14-17 centuries)). spruce up to make yourself or something look neater and tidier. Any of about 40 species of evergreen ornamental and timber trees that make up the genus Picea (pine family), native to temperate and cold regions of the Northern Hemisphere. These pyramid-shaped trees have whorled branches and thin, scaly bark. The needlelike, spirally arranged leaves connect to their stems via a peglike woody base, which remains on the twig when the leaf falls. Tough, finely grained, resonant, and pliable, spruce wood is used for sounding boards in pianos and bodies of violins, as well as in construction, for boats and barrels, and as pulpwood. Common species throughout most of northern North America are black spruce (P. mariana), a source of spruce gum, and white spruce (P. glauca), a source of good timber. Blue, or Colorado spruce (P. pungens) is used as an ornamental because of its bluish leaves and symmetrical growth habit
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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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To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up
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excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (P
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make neat, smart, or trim; "Spruce up your house for Spring"; "titivate the child"
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To dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce
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Prussia leather; pruce
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Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir
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A spruce is a kind of evergreen tree. Trees such as spruce, pine and oak have been planted. a young blue spruce. 80-year-old spruces. Spruce is the wood from this tree. Early settlers built frames of spruce, maple and pine
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Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norway spruce P
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Made of the wood from a spruce
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to make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance)
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any coniferous tree of the genus Picea
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{s} dressed up, having a smart appearance; clean and orderly
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dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion; "He spruced up for the party"
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Sprightly; dashing
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light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork
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{i} variety of coniferous evergreen tree
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The wood or timber of the spruce tree
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nigra, besides several others in the far Northwest
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{f} dress up, improve one's outward appearance; make neat and tidy
spruceness

    Hyphenation

    spruce·ness

    Pronunciation

    Etymology

    (adjective.) 1599. perhaps from obsolete English Spruce leather leather imported from Prussia.
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