spruce🔊

Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus (genus), found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully {{vern|spruce fir}}.

The wood of a spruce.

(used attributively) Made of the wood of the spruce.

(obsolete) Prussian leather; pruce.

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

{{lb|en|usually with (up)}} To arrange neatly; tidy up.

{{lb|en|ambitransitive|usually with (up)}} To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).

To tease. {{rfex|en}}