present participle of spruce

Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir. / (uncountable) The wood of a spruce.

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

(usually with up) To arrange neatly; tidy up. / (transitive, intransitive, usually with up) To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance). / To tease.

(obsolete) Prussia.

plural of spruce

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spruce

In a spruce manner; neatly and elegantly.

the property of being spruce, of being neat and elegant

simple past tense and past participle of spruce