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- Spruce - a. - Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norway spruce (P. excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (P. alba and P. nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea.
- Spruce - a. - The wood or timber of the spruce tree.
- Spruce - a. - Prussia leather; pruce.
- Spruce - n. - Neat, without elegance or dignity; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons.
- Spruce - n. - Sprightly; dashing.
- Spruce - v. t. - To dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce.
- Spruce - v. i. - To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up.
- Spruced - imp. & p. p. - of Spruce
- Spruce - a. - Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norway spruce (P. excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (P. alba and P. nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea.
- Picea - n. - A genus of coniferous trees of the northen hemisphere, including the Norway spruce and the American black and white spruces. These trees have pendent cones, which do not readily fall to pieces, in this and other respects differing from the firs.
- Spruce - a. - The wood or timber of the spruce tree.
- Frankincense - n. - A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified.
- Spruce - v. i. - To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up.