3. (verb)dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"
4. (verb)spruce up, spruce, titivate, tittivate, smarten up, slick up, spiff up make neat, smart, or trim "Spruce up your house for Spring"; "titivate the child"
5. (verb)spruce up, spruce, slick up, smarten up dress and groom with particular care, as for a specialoccasion "He spruced up for the party"
Definitions of 'spruce'
Webster 1913 Dictionary
1. (adj)spruce any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norwayspruce (P. excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (P. alba and P. nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea
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