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slovo definícia spruce (mass) spruce - elegantný, smrek, vyčistiť, vyparádiť (sa) spruce (encz) spruce,smrk n: Zdeněk Brož spruce (encz) spruce,úhledný adj: Zdeněk Brož spruce (encz) spruce,vyšňořený adj: Zdeněk Brož Spruce (gcide) 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 (Picea excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (Picea alba and Picea nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea. [1913 Webster] 2. The wood or timber of the spruce tree. [1913 Webster] 3. Prussia leather; pruce. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Spruce, a sort of leather corruptly so called for Prussia leather. --E. Phillips. [1913 Webster] 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. (Zool.) Same as Spruce partridge, below. Spruce leather. See Spruce, n., 3. Spruce partridge (Zool.), a handsome American grouse (Dendragapus Canadensis) found in Canada and the Northern United States; -- called also Canada grouse. [1913 Webster] Spruce (gcide) 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. [1913 Webster] Spruce (gcide) Spruce \Spruce\, v. i. To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up. [1913 Webster] Spruce (gcide) 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Sprightly; dashing. [Obs.] "Now, my spruce companions." --Shak. [1913 Webster] He is so spruce that he can never be genteel. --Tatler. [1913 Webster] Syn: Finical; neat; trim. See Finical. [1913 Webster] -- Spruce"ly, adv. -- Spruce"ness, n. [1913 Webster] spruce (wn) spruce adj 1: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce] n 1: light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork 2: any coniferous tree of the genus Picea v 1: make neat, smart, or trim; "Spruce up your house for Spring"; "titivate the child" [syn: spruce up, spruce, titivate, tittivate, smarten up, slick up, {spiff up}] 2: dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion; "He spruced up for the party" [syn: spruce up, spruce, slick up, smarten up]

podobné slovo definícia all spruced up (encz) all spruced up,oblečený do svátečního Zdeněk Brož colorado spruce (encz) Colorado spruce, douglas spruce (encz) douglas spruce, n: eastern spruce (encz) eastern spruce, n: hemlock spruce (encz) hemlock spruce,tsuga kanadská strom i dřevo Martin M. oriental spruce (encz) oriental spruce, n: red spruce (encz) red spruce, n: silver spruce (encz) silver spruce, n: spruce bark beetle (encz) spruce bark beetle, n: spruce beer (encz) spruce beer, n: spruce gall aphid (encz) spruce gall aphid, n: spruce grouse (encz) spruce grouse, n: spruce pine (encz) spruce pine, n: spruce squirrel (encz) spruce squirrel, n: spruce up (encz) spruce up,vyparádit se chaldaspruce up,vystrojit se chalda spruced (encz) spruced, spruced up (encz) spruced up, adj: sprucely (encz) sprucely, spruceness (encz) spruceness, weeping spruce (encz) weeping spruce, n: white spruce (encz) white spruce, n: yellow spruce (encz) yellow spruce, n: Douglas spruce (gcide) 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 (Picea excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (Picea alba and Picea nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea. [1913 Webster] 2. The wood or timber of the spruce tree. [1913 Webster] 3. Prussia leather; pruce. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Spruce, a sort of leather corruptly so called for Prussia leather. --E. Phillips. [1913 Webster] 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. (Zool.) Same as Spruce partridge, below. Spruce leather. See Spruce, n., 3. Spruce partridge (Zool.), a handsome American grouse (Dendragapus Canadensis) found in Canada and the Northern United States; -- called also Canada grouse. [1913 Webster] dressed-up dressed to the ninespredicate dressed to killpredicate dolled up spruced up spiffed up (gcide) clothed \clothed\ adj. 1. wearing clothing. [Narrower terms: {adorned(predicate), bedecked(predicate), decked(predicate), decked out(predicate)}; {appareled, attired, clad, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed}; {arrayed, panoplied}; breeched, pantalooned, trousered; bundled-up; caparisoned; cassocked: costumed: decent] [Narrower terms: dight] [Narrower terms: {dressed-up, dressed to the nines(predicate), dressed to kill(predicate), dolled up, spruced up, spiffed up}] [Narrower terms: gowned] [Narrower terms: habited] [Narrower terms: heavy-coated] [Narrower terms: overdressed] [Narrower terms: petticoated] [Narrower terms: red-coated, lobster-backed] [Narrower terms: surpliced] [Narrower terms: {togged dressed esp in smart clothes)}] [Narrower terms: turned out] [Narrower terms: underdressed] [Narrower terms: uniformed] [Narrower terms: vestmented] Also See: adorned, decorated. Antonym: unclothed. [WordNet 1.5] 2. covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak. fog-cloaked meadows Syn: cloaked, draped, mantled, wrapped. [WordNet 1.5] Essence of spruce (gcide) 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 (Picea excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (Picea alba and Picea nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea. [1913 Webster] 2. The wood or timber of the spruce tree. [1913 Webster] 3. Prussia leather; pruce. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Spruce, a sort of leather corruptly so called for Prussia leather. --E. Phillips. [1913 Webster] 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. (Zool.) Same as Spruce partridge, below. Spruce leather. See Spruce, n., 3. Spruce partridge (Zool.), a handsome American grouse (Dendragapus Canadensis) found in Canada and the Northern United States; -- called also Canada grouse. [1913 Webster] Hemlock spruce (gcide) 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 (Picea excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (Picea alba and Picea nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea. [1913 Webster] 2. The wood or timber of the spruce tree. [1913 Webster] 3. Prussia leather; pruce. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Spruce, a sort of leather corruptly so called for Prussia leather. --E. Phillips. [1913 Webster] 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. (Zool.) Same as Spruce partridge, below. Spruce leather. See Spruce, n., 3. Spruce partridge (Zool.), a handsome American grouse (Dendragapus Canadensis) found in Canada and the Northern United States; -- called also Canada grouse. [1913 Webster] Spruce (gcide) 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 (Picea excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (Picea alba and Picea nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea. [1913 Webster] 2. The wood or timber of the spruce tree. [1913 Webster] 3. Prussia leather; pruce. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Spruce, a sort of leather corruptly so called for Prussia leather. --E. Phillips. [1913 Webster] 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. (Zool.) Same as Spruce partridge, below. Spruce leather. See Spruce, n., 3. Spruce partridge (Zool.), a handsome American grouse (Dendragapus Canadensis) found in Canada and the Northern United States; -- called also Canada grouse. [1913 Webster]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. [1913 Webster]Spruce \Spruce\, v. i. To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up. [1913 Webster]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. [1913 Webster] 2. Sprightly; dashing. [Obs.] "Now, my spruce companions." --Shak. [1913 Webster] He is so spruce that he can never be genteel. --Tatler. [1913 Webster] Syn: Finical; neat; trim. See Finical. [1913 Webster] -- Spruce"ly, adv. -- Spruce"ness, n. [1913 Webster] Spruce beer (gcide) 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 (Picea excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (Picea alba and Picea nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea. [1913 Webster] 2. The wood or timber of the spruce tree. [1913 Webster] 3. Prussia leather; pruce. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Spruce, a sort of leather corruptly so called for Prussia leather. --E. Phillips. [1913 Webster] 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. (Zool.) Same as Spruce partridge, below. Spruce leather. See Spruce, n., 3. Spruce partridge (Zool.), a handsome American grouse (Dendragapus Canadensis) found in Canada and the Northern United States; -- called also Canada grouse. [1913 Webster] Spruce grouse (gcide) 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 (Picea excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (Picea alba and Picea nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea. [1913 Webster] 2. The wood or timber of the spruce tree. [1913 Webster] 3. Prussia leather; pruce. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Spruce, a sort of leather corruptly so called for Prussia leather. --E. Phillips. [1913 Webster] 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. (Zool.) Same as Spruce partridge, below. Spruce leather. See Spruce, n., 3. Spruce partridge (Zool.), a handsome American grouse (Dendragapus Canadensis) found in Canada and the Northern United States; -- called also Canada grouse. [1913 Webster] Spruce leather (gcide) 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 (Picea excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (Picea alba and Picea nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea. [1913 Webster] 2. The wood or timber of the spruce tree. [1913 Webster] 3. Prussia leather; pruce. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Spruce, a sort of leather corruptly so called for Prussia leather. --E. Phillips. [1913 Webster] 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. (Zool.) Same as Spruce partridge, below. Spruce leather. See Spruce, n., 3. Spruce partridge (Zool.), a handsome American grouse (Dendragapus Canadensis) found in Canada and the Northern United States; -- called also Canada grouse. [1913 Webster] Spruce partridge (gcide) Partridge \Par"tridge\ (p[aum]r"tr[i^]j), n. [OE. partriche, pertriche, OF. pertris, perdriz, F. perdrix, L. perdix, -icis, fr. Gr. pe`rdix.] (Zool.) 1. Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus Perdix and several related genera of the family Perdicid[ae], of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird. [1913 Webster] Full many a fat partrich had he in mew. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Note: The common European, or gray, partridge ({Perdix cinerea}) and the red-legged partridge ({Caccabis rubra}) of Southern Europe and Asia are well-known species. [1913 Webster] 2. Any one of several species of quail-like birds belonging to Colinus, and allied genera. [U.S.] [1913 Webster] Note: Among them are the bobwhite (Colinus Virginianus) of the Eastern States; the plumed, or mountain, partridge (Oreortyx pictus) of California; the Massena partridge (Cyrtonyx Montezum[ae]); and the California partridge (Callipepla Californica). [1913 Webster] 3. The ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus). [New Eng.] [1913 Webster] Bamboo partridge (Zool.), a spurred partridge of the genus Bambusicola. Several species are found in China and the East Indies. Night partridge (Zool.), the woodcock. [Local, U.S.] Painted partridge (Zool.), a francolin of South Africa (Francolinus pictus). Partridge berry. (Bot.) (a) The scarlet berry of a trailing american plant (Mitchella repens) of the order Rubiace[ae], having roundish evergreen leaves, and white fragrant flowers sometimes tinged with purple, growing in pairs with the ovaries united, and producing the berries which remain over winter; also, the plant itself. (b) The fruit of the creeping wintergreen ({Gaultheria procumbens}); also, the plant itself. Partridge dove (Zool.) Same as Mountain witch, under Mountain. Partridge pea (Bot.), a yellow-flowered leguminous herb (Cassia Cham[ae]crista), common in sandy fields in the Eastern United States. Partridge shell (Zool.), a large marine univalve shell (Dolium perdix), having colors variegated like those of the partridge. Partridge wood (a) A variegated wood, much esteemed for cabinetwork. It is obtained from tropical America, and one source of it is said to be the leguminous tree Andira inermis. Called also pheasant wood. (b) A name sometimes given to the dark-colored and striated wood of some kind of palm, which is used for walking sticks and umbrella handles. Sea partridge (Zool.), an Asiatic sand partridge (Ammoperdix Bonhami); -- so called from its note. Snow partridge (Zool.), a large spurred partridge ({Lerwa nivicola}) which inhabits the high mountains of Asia; called also jermoonal. Spruce partridge. See under Spruce. Wood partridge, or Hill partridge (Zool.), any small Asiatic partridge of the genus Arboricola. [1913 Webster]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 (Picea excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (Picea alba and Picea nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea. [1913 Webster] 2. The wood or timber of the spruce tree. [1913 Webster] 3. Prussia leather; pruce. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Spruce, a sort of leather corruptly so called for Prussia leather. --E. Phillips. [1913 Webster] 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. (Zool.) Same as Spruce partridge, below. Spruce leather. See Spruce, n., 3. Spruce partridge (Zool.), a handsome American grouse (Dendragapus Canadensis) found in Canada and the Northern United States; -- called also Canada grouse. [1913 Webster] Spruced (gcide) 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. [1913 Webster] Sprucely (gcide) 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Sprightly; dashing. [Obs.] "Now, my spruce companions." --Shak. [1913 Webster] He is so spruce that he can never be genteel. --Tatler. [1913 Webster] Syn: Finical; neat; trim. See Finical. [1913 Webster] -- Spruce"ly, adv. -- Spruce"ness, n. [1913 Webster] Spruceness (gcide) 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Sprightly; dashing. [Obs.] "Now, my spruce companions." --Shak. [1913 Webster] He is so spruce that he can never be genteel. --Tatler. [1913 Webster] Syn: Finical; neat; trim. See Finical. [1913 Webster] -- Spruce"ly, adv. -- Spruce"ness, n. [1913 Webster] Sprucer (gcide) 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Sprightly; dashing. [Obs.] "Now, my spruce companions." --Shak. [1913 Webster] He is so spruce that he can never be genteel. --Tatler. [1913 Webster] Syn: Finical; neat; trim. See Finical. [1913 Webster] -- Spruce"ly, adv. -- Spruce"ness, n. [1913 Webster] Sprucest (gcide) 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Sprightly; dashing. [Obs.] "Now, my spruce companions." --Shak. [1913 Webster] He is so spruce that he can never be genteel. --Tatler. [1913 Webster] Syn: Finical; neat; trim. See Finical. [1913 Webster] -- Spruce"ly, adv. -- Spruce"ness, n. [1913 Webster] weeping spruce (gcide) weeping spruce \weeping spruce\ n. a medium-sized spruce of California and Oregon ({Picea breweriana}) having pendulous branches. Syn: Brewer's spruce. [WordNet 1.5] White spruce (gcide) White \White\ (hw[imac]t), a. [Compar. Whiter (hw[imac]t"[~e]r); superl. Whitest.] [OE. whit, AS. hw[imac]t; akin to OFries. and OS. hw[imac]t, D. wit, G. weiss, OHG. w[imac]z, hw[imac]z, Icel. hv[imac]tr, Sw. hvit, Dan. hvid, Goth. hweits, Lith. szveisti, to make bright, Russ. sviet' light, Skr. [,c]v[=e]ta white, [,c]vit to be bright. [root]42. Cf. Wheat, Whitsunday.] [1913 Webster] 1. Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; -- the opposite of black or dark; as, white paper; a white skin. "Pearls white." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] White as the whitest lily on a stream. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 2. Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear. [1913 Webster] Or whispering with white lips, "The foe! They come! they come!" --Byron. [1913 Webster] 3. Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure. [1913 Webster] White as thy fame, and as thy honor clear. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] No whiter page than Addison's remains. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 4. Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary. [1913 Webster] Your high engendered battles 'gainst a head So old and white as this. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favorable. [1913 Webster] On the whole, however, the dominie reckoned this as one of the white days of his life. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 6. Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling. [1913 Webster] Come forth, my white spouse. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] I am his white boy, and will not be gullet. --Ford. [1913 Webster] Note: White is used in many self-explaining compounds, as white-backed, white-bearded, white-footed. [1913 Webster] White alder. (Bot.) See Sweet pepper bush, under Pepper. White ant (Zool.), any one of numerous species of social pseudoneuropterous insects of the genus Termes. These insects are very abundant in tropical countries, and form large and complex communities consisting of numerous asexual workers of one or more kinds, of large-headed asexual individuals called soldiers, of one or more queens (or fertile females) often having the body enormously distended by the eggs, and, at certain seasons of numerous winged males, together with the larvae and pupae of each kind in various stages of development. Many of the species construct large and complicated nests, sometimes in the form of domelike structures rising several feet above the ground and connected with extensive subterranean galleries and chambers. In their social habits they closely resemble the true ants. They feed upon animal and vegetable substances of various kinds, including timber, and are often very destructive to buildings and furniture. White arsenic (Chem.), arsenious oxide, As2O3, a substance of a white color, and vitreous adamantine luster, having an astringent, sweetish taste. It is a deadly poison. White bass (Zool.), a fresh-water North American bass (Roccus chrysops) found in the Great Likes. White bear (Zool.), the polar bear. See under Polar. White blood cell. (Physiol.) See Leucocyte. White brand (Zool.), the snow goose. White brass, a white alloy of copper; white copper. White campion. (Bot.) (a) A kind of catchfly (Silene stellata) with white flowers. (b) A white-flowered Lychnis (Lychnis vespertina). White canon (R. C. Ch.), a Premonstratensian. White caps, the members of a secret organization in various of the United States, who attempt to drive away or reform obnoxious persons by lynch-law methods. They appear masked in white. Their actions resembled those of the Ku Klux Klan in some ways but they were not formally affiliated with the Klan, and their victims were often not black. White cedar (Bot.), an evergreen tree of North America (Thuja occidentalis), also the related {Cupressus thyoides}, or Chamaecyparis sphaeroidea, a slender evergreen conifer which grows in the so-called cedar swamps of the Northern and Atlantic States. Both are much valued for their durable timber. In California the name is given to the Libocedrus decurrens, the timber of which is also useful, though often subject to dry rot. --Goodale. The white cedar of Demerara, Guiana, etc., is a lofty tree (Icica altissima syn. Bursera altissima) whose fragrant wood is used for canoes and cabinetwork, as it is not attacked by insect. White cell. (Physiol.) See Leucocyte. White cell-blood (Med.), leucocythaemia. White clover (Bot.), a species of small perennial clover bearing white flowers. It furnishes excellent food for cattle and horses, as well as for the honeybee. See also under Clover. White copper, a whitish alloy of copper. See {German silver}, under German. White copperas (Min.), a native hydrous sulphate of iron; coquimbite. White coral (Zool.), an ornamental branched coral (Amphihelia oculata) native of the Mediterranean. White corpuscle. (Physiol.) See Leucocyte. White cricket (Zool.), the tree cricket. White crop, a crop of grain which loses its green color, or becomes white, in ripening, as wheat, rye, barley, and oats, as distinguished from a green crop, or a root crop. White currant (Bot.), a variety of the common red currant, having white berries. White daisy (Bot.), the oxeye daisy. See under Daisy. White damp, a kind of poisonous gas encountered in coal mines. --Raymond. White elephant (Zool.), (a) a whitish, or albino, variety of the Asiatic elephant. (b) see white elephant in the vocabulary. White elm (Bot.), a majestic tree of North America ({Ulmus Americana}), the timber of which is much used for hubs of wheels, and for other purposes. White ensign. See Saint George's ensign, under Saint. White feather, a mark or symbol of cowardice. See {To show the white feather}, under Feather, n. White fir (Bot.), a name given to several coniferous trees of the Pacific States, as Abies grandis, and {Abies concolor}. White flesher (Zool.), the ruffed grouse. See under Ruffed. [Canada] White frost. See Hoarfrost. White game (Zool.), the white ptarmigan. White garnet (Min.), leucite. White grass (Bot.), an American grass (Leersia Virginica) with greenish-white paleae. White grouse. (Zool.) (a) The white ptarmigan. (b) The prairie chicken. [Local, U. S.] White grub (Zool.), the larva of the June bug and other allied species. These grubs eat the roots of grasses and other plants, and often do much damage. White hake (Zool.), the squirrel hake. See under Squirrel. White hawk, or White kite (Zool.), the hen harrier. White heat, the temperature at which bodies become incandescent, and appear white from the bright light which they emit. White hellebore (Bot.), a plant of the genus Veratrum (Veratrum album) See Hellebore, 2. White herring, a fresh, or unsmoked, herring, as distinguished from a red, or cured, herring. [R.] --Shak. White hoolet (Zool.), the barn owl. [Prov. Eng.] White horses (Naut.), white-topped waves; whitecaps. The White House. See under House. White ibis (Zool.), an American ibis (Guara alba) having the plumage pure white, except the tips of the wings, which are black. It inhabits tropical America and the Southern United States. Called also Spanish curlew. White iron. (a) Thin sheets of iron coated with tin; tinned iron. (b) A hard, silvery-white cast iron containing a large proportion of combined carbon. White iron pyrites (Min.), marcasite. White land, a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry, but blackish after rain. [Eng.] White lark (Zool.), the snow bunting. White lead. (a) A carbonate of lead much used in painting, and for other purposes; ceruse. (b) (Min.) Native lead carbonate; cerusite. White leather, buff leather; leather tanned with alum and salt. White leg (Med.), milk leg. See under Milk. White lettuce (Bot.), rattlesnake root. See under Rattlesnake. White lie. See under Lie. White light. (a) (Physics) Light having the different colors in the same proportion as in the light coming directly from the sun, without having been decomposed, as by passing through a prism. See the Note under Color, n., 1. (b) A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white illumination for signals, etc. White lime, a solution or preparation of lime for whitewashing; whitewash. White line (Print.), a void space of the breadth of a line, on a printed page; a blank line. White meat. (a) Any light-colored flesh, especially of poultry. (b) Food made from milk or eggs, as butter, cheese, etc. [1913 Webster] Driving their cattle continually with them, and feeding only upon their milk and white meats. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] White merganser (Zool.), the smew. White metal. (a) Any one of several white alloys, as pewter, britannia, etc. (b) (Metal.) A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a certain stage in copper smelting. White miller. (Zool.) (a) The common clothes moth. (b) A common American bombycid moth ({Spilosoma Virginica}) which is pure white with a few small black spots; -- called also ermine moth, and {virgin moth}. See Woolly bear, under Woolly. White money, silver money. White mouse (Zool.), the albino variety of the common mouse. White mullet (Zool.), a silvery mullet (Mugil curema) ranging from the coast of the United States to Brazil; -- called also blue-back mullet, and liza. White nun (Zool.), the smew; -- so called from the white crest and the band of black feathers on the back of its head, which give the appearance of a hood. White oak. (Bot.) See under Oak. White owl. (Zool.) (a) The snowy owl. (b) The barn owl. White partridge (Zool.), the white ptarmigan. White perch. (Zool.) (a) A North American fresh-water bass (Morone Americana) valued as a food fish. (b) The croaker, or fresh-water drum. (c) Any California surf fish. White pine. (Bot.) See the Note under Pine. White poplar (Bot.), a European tree (Populus alba) often cultivated as a shade tree in America; abele. White poppy (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See Poppy. White powder, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] A pistol charged with white powder. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] White precipitate. (Old Chem.) See under Precipitate. White rabbit. (Zool.) (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage. (b) An albino rabbit. White rent, (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; -- opposed to black rent. See Blackmail, n., 3. (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.] White rhinoceros. (Zool.) (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros ({Rhinoceros Indicus}). See Rhinoceros. (b) The umhofo. White ribbon, the distinctive badge of certain organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral purity; as, the White-ribbon Army. White rope (Naut.), untarred hemp rope. White rot. (Bot.) (a) Either of several plants, as marsh pennywort and butterwort, which were thought to produce the disease called rot in sheep. (b) A disease of grapes. See White rot, under Rot. White sage (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub ({Eurotia lanata}) of Western North America; -- called also {winter fat}. White salmon (Zool.), the silver salmon. White salt, salt dried and calcined; decrepitated salt. White scale (Zool.), a scale insect (Aspidiotus Nerii) injurious to the orange tree. See Orange scale, under Orange. White shark (Zool.), a species of man-eating shark. See under Shark. White softening. (Med.) See Softening of the brain, under Softening. White spruce. (Bot.) See Spruce, n., 1. White squall (Naut.), a sudden gust of wind, or furious blow, which comes up without being marked in its approach otherwise than by whitecaps, or white, broken water, on the surface of the sea. White staff, the badge of the lord high treasurer of England. --Macaulay. White stork (Zool.), the common European stork. White sturgeon. (Zool.) See Shovelnose (d) . White sucker. (Zool.) (a) The common sucker. (b) The common red horse (Moxostoma macrolepidotum). White swelling (Med.), a chronic swelling of the knee, produced by a strumous inflammation of the synovial membranes of the kneejoint and of the cancellar texture of the end of the bone forming the kneejoint; -- applied also to a lingering chronic swelling of almost any kind. White tombac. See Tombac. White trout (Zool.), the white weakfish, or silver squeteague (Cynoscion nothus), of the Southern United States. White vitriol (Chem.), hydrous sulphate of zinc. See {White vitriol}, under Vitriol. White wagtail (Zool.), the common, or pied, wagtail. White wax, beeswax rendered white by bleaching. White whale (Zool.), the beluga. White widgeon (Zool.), the smew. White wine. any wine of a clear, transparent color, bordering on white, as Madeira, sherry, Lisbon, etc.; -- distinguished from wines of a deep red color, as port and Burgundy. "White wine of Lepe." --Chaucer. White witch, a witch or wizard whose supernatural powers are supposed to be exercised for good and beneficent purposes. --Addison. --Cotton Mather. White wolf. (Zool.) (a) A light-colored wolf (Canis laniger) native of Thibet; -- called also chanco, golden wolf, and Thibetan wolf. (b) The albino variety of the gray wolf. White wren (Zool.), the willow warbler; -- so called from the color of the under parts. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster] big-cone spruce (wn) big-cone spruce n 1: douglas fir of California having cones 4-8 inches long [syn: big-cone spruce, big-cone douglas fir, Pseudotsuga macrocarpa] black spruce (wn) black spruce n 1: small spruce of boggy areas of northeastern North America having spreading branches with dense foliage; inferior wood [syn: black spruce, Picea mariana, spruce pine]