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spruce 音标拼音: [spr'us] n. 云杉属的植物
a. 颇为干净的,俏的,时髦的
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vi. (使)显干净,打扮整齐 云杉属的植物颇为干净的,俏的,时髦的(使)显干净,打扮整齐 spruce adj 1: marked by up- to- dateness in dress and manners; " a dapper young man"; " a jaunty red hat" [ synonym: { dapper}, { dashing}, { jaunty}, { natty}, { raffish}, { rakish}, { spiffy}, { snappy}, { spruce}] n 1: light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork 2: any coniferous tree of the genus Picea v 1: make neat, smart, or trim; " Spruce up your house for Spring"; " titivate the child" [ synonym: { spruce up}, { spruce}, { titivate}, { tittivate}, { smarten up}, { slick up}, { spiff up}] 2: dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion; " He spruced up for the party" [ synonym: { spruce up}, { spruce}, { slick up}, { smarten up}] Spruce \ Spruce\ ( spr[ udd] s), n. [ OE. Spruce or Pruse, Prussia, Prussian. So named because it was first known as a native of Prussia, or because its sprouts were used for making, spruce beer. Cf. Spruce beer, below, { Spruce}, a.] 1. ( Bot.) Any coniferous tree of the genus { Picea}, as the Norway spruce ({ Picea excelsa}), and the white and black spruces of America ({ Picea alba} and { Picea nigra}), besides several others in the far Northwest. See { Picea}. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The wood or timber of the spruce tree. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Prussia leather; pruce. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Spruce, a sort of leather corruptly so called for Prussia leather. -- E. Phillips. [ 1913 Webster] { Douglas spruce} ( Bot.), a valuable timber tree ({ Pseudotsuga Douglasii}) of Northwestern America. { Essence of spruce}, a thick, dark- colored, bitterish, and acidulous liquid made by evaporating a decoction of the young branches of spruce. { Hemlock spruce} ( Bot.), a graceful coniferous tree ({ Tsuga Canadensis}) of North America. Its timber is valuable, and the bark is largely used in tanning leather. { Spruce beer}. [ G. sprossenbier; sprosse sprout, shoot ( akin to E. sprout, n.) bier beer. The word was changed into spruce beer because the beer came from Prussia ( OE. Spruce), or because it was made from the sprouts of the spruce. See { Sprout}, n., { Beer}, and cf. { Spruce}, n.] A kind of beer which is tinctured or flavored with spruce, either by means of the extract or by decoction. { Spruce grouse}. ( Zool.) Same as { Spruce partridge}, below. { Spruce leather}. See { Spruce}, n., 3. { Spruce partridge} ( Zool.), a handsome American grouse ({ Dendragapus Canadensis}) found in Canada and the Northern United States; -- called also { Canada grouse}. [ 1913 Webster]
Spruce \ Spruce\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Spruced} ( spr[ udd] st); p. pr. & vb. n. { Sprucing} ( spr[ udd]" s[ i^] ng).] To dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce; -- often used with up; as, to spruce up the house for Company. [ 1913 Webster]
Spruce \ Spruce\, v. i. To dress one' s self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up. [ 1913 Webster]
Spruce \ Spruce\ ( spr[ udd] s), a. [ Compar. { Sprucer} ( spr[ udd]" s[~ e] r); superl. { Sprucest} ( spr[ udd]" s[ e^] st).] [ Perhaps fr. spruce a sort of leather from Prussia, which was an article of finery. See { Spruce}, n.] 1. Neat, without elegance or dignity; smart; trim; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons. " Neat and spruce array." -- Remedy of Love. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Sprightly; dashing. [ Obs.] " Now, my spruce companions." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] He is so spruce that he can never be genteel. -- Tatler. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Finical; neat; trim. See { Finical}. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Spruce" ly}, adv. -- { Spruce" ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 78 Moby Thesaurus words for " spruce": anal, bandbox, bowdlerized, braw, chic, classy, clean up, cleaned, cleaned up, cleansed, clothes- conscious, cosmopolitan, dapper, dashing, dinky, doggy, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, dressed up, elegant, en grande tenue, endimanche, expurgated, exquisite, genteel, gussied up, in full dress, in full feather, in high feather, in tails, jaunty, modish, natty, neat, nifty, nobby, posh, primp, purged, purified, recherche, refined, reformed, ritzy, sassy, sharp, shipshape, sleek, slick, slicked up, smart, smarten up, smug, snazzy, snug, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, spiffy, spruce up, straighten out, straighten up, style- conscious, stylish, swank, swanky, swell, tidy, tidy up, tight, titivate, tricksy, trig, trim, well turned- out, well- cared- for, well- dressed, well- groomed
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