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English to English adjective
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Neat, without elegance or dignity; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | | Example: a dapper young man
a jaunty red hat
source: wordnet30 noun
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light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork | | source: wordnet30
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any coniferous tree of the genus Picea | | source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913 verb
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make neat, smart, or trim | | Example: Spruce up your house for Spring
titivate the child
source: wordnet30
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dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion | | Example: He spruced up for the party
source: wordnet30
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To dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce. | | source: webster1913
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To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up. | | source: webster1913
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