spruce的意思|spruce的解释-里氏词典

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.

2. Sprightly; dashing. [Obs.] ``Now, my spruce companions.''
--Shak.

He is so spruce that he can never be genteel.
--Tatler.

Syn: Finical; neat; trim. See {Finical}.
※ -- {Spruce"ly}, adv. -- {Spruce"ness}, n.

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 ({P. excelsa}), and the white and black
spruces of America ({P. alba} and {P. nigra}), besides
several others in the far Northwest. See {Picea}.

2. The wood or timber of the spruce tree.

3. Prussia leather; pruce. [Obs.]

Spruce, a sort of leather corruptly so called for
Prussia leather. --E. Phillips.

{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}. (Zo["o]l.) Same as {Spruce partridge},
below.

{Spruce leather}. See {Spruce}, n., 3.

{Spruce partridge} (Zo["o]l.), a handsome American grouse
({Dendragapus Canadensis}) found in Canada and the
Northern United States; -- called also {Canada grouse}.

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.

Spruce \Spruce\, v. i.
To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up.

The Beaver fire, named for a village on the Yukon River, remained Alaska's largest; on Sunday it was burning a 10-by-48-mile section of spruce forest, said Hogervorst-Rukke.
It's just a ragged clump of stunted spruce, but the Adak National Forest is nothing short of inspirational to foresters who dream of covering the desolate Aleutian Islands with trees.
But Bratislava itself was spruce and clean and the people uninhibited and friendly. Yet it is difficult to find information on Bratislava in Vienna, though it is less than 40 miles down the river.
After the Berlin Wall opened, the East Germans invited BMW engineers to tour the Eisenach plant, hoping the West Germans would be willing to take it back and spruce it up.
The production designs by Neil Peter Jampolis are meager and unnecessary, looking as if they were an afterthought, added only to spruce up the show for its move to Broadway after a run of several months at a Greenwich Village nightclub.
Newspapers must spruce up their images and use innovative ad campaigns if they want take ad dollars away from television and magazines, the executives told a session of the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention.
Others have tried to spruce up frequent-flier programs.
Miller said that a mature Sitka spruce from Tongass now sells for $1.48, compared to $2 for a map of the national forest.
So carefully does he work that he carves just two or three violins a year out of spruce and maple, making about 25 violins, six violas and three cellos in 18 years.
There were also the Mexican fiestas celebrated annually in the asphalt courtyard and the colorful murals created by children to spruce up the building's exterior.
During the next two weeks, crews will decorate the huge spruce with 20,000 multi-colored lights that will blink to life Dec. 3 at a ceremony led by Liza Minnelli.
Canada alleges that Japan discriminates against Canadian lumber exports by assessing an 8% tariff on Canadian spruce, pine and fir, while exports of similar species from the U.S. are allowed to enter duty-free.
Millions of black matchsticks are all that remain of once-thriving lodgepoles and blue spruce, aspens and firs.
Six small blue spruce trees were planted around the table, one for each of the photographers.
We made our way up a sage-covered slope near Hebgen Lake, just west of Yellowstone Park, to an old spruce.
The giant spruce toppled onto a crane mounted on a logging truck waiting to haul it away.
An affluent suburb trying to spruce up its neighborhoods is having second thoughts about a law that bars pickup trucks from parking overnight in front of homes or in driveways, the mayor says.
They said the gains reflects efforts by some institutional investors to spruce up their end-of-year portfolios by adding some top-quality issues.
Throughout Alaska some 2,400 firefighters were battling fires consuming more than 280,225 acres in a wide east-west band across the flat tundra and black spruce forests of the sparsely populated interior.
Walter Rhodes, who has lived under the Truckee River bridge for four months, on Tuesday was appointed to a citizens' committee formed to spruce up the riverbanks after he showed up at a council meeting to protest.
The analysts said the gains also reflected efforts by some institutional investors to spruce up their end-of-year portfolios or put some excess cash to work by adding some top-quality issues.
Dying trees in the East, primarily some pines in the Southeast and red spruce in the Appalachian Mountains, probably are being killed by the interaction of ozone and the sulfuric and nitric acids in acid rain, they said.
They learn that a few spruce trees are more dangerous than a stand of lofty pines, more apt to spread fire to the treetops because their downswept boughs reach the burning undergrowth.
The 10,000-acre East Inlet watershed had never been cut, but its spruce was in demand.
His press pictures invariably portray him beaming from the helm clad in a spruce linen suit and snowy white cap. It was the closest the media got to him.
Sears, Roebuck and Co. said its fourth-quarter profit fell 78.8 percent because of one-time costs in the giant retailer's fight to spruce up its image.
The conductor's spruce handling of orchestral ensemble worked well in this symphony.
Cooley's parachute did not open properly until he was just 600 feet from the ground, and then the strong winds carried him right through the branches of a huge spruce tree.

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