What is the name meaning of SPRUCE. Phrases containing SPRUCE
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Surname or Lastname
English
English : ethnic name for someone from Prussia, Middle English Spruce, Sprewse. Compare German Preuss. The adjective spruce ‘neat’, ‘dapper’, which probably derives from an attributive use of the name of the country, is not recorded until the late 16th century, too late for it to be a likely source of the surname. The tree (earlier called spruce fir) has likewise only come to be known by this name in the last couple of centuries.
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Surname or Lastname
English
English : probably a variant of Grein, Grain, a topographic name for someone who lived by an inlet or at the fork of a river, Middle English greine, grayne.Altered spelling of German Grein.Possibly an Americanized form of Norwegian Grini, a common habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads in southeastern Norway named Grini, from Old Norse grǫnvin, a compound of grǫn ‘spruce’ + vin ‘meadow’.
Surname or Lastname
German
German : from a short form (Sabbe) of a Germanic personal name with sacha ‘legal case or action’ as the first element.English : topographic name from Middle English sap ‘spruce tree’ (Old English sæppe).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : ethnic name for someone from Prussia, Middle English Spruce, Sprewse. Compare German Preuss. The adjective spruce ‘neat’, ‘dapper’, which probably derives from an attributive use of the name of the country, is not recorded until the late 16th century, too late for it to be a likely source of the surname. The tree (earlier called spruce fir) has likewise only come to be known by this name in the last couple of centuries.
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Boy/Male
Hindu
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Sanskrit
Light of the Universe
Boy/Male
British, English
Small Falcon
Boy/Male
Bengali, Hindu, Indian
Who Wears Politeness as an Ornament
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name, perhaps from Guilthwaite in South Yorkshire, which is named from Old Norse gil ‘ravine’ + Old Norse þveit ‘clearing’. However, the modern surname is associated with Essex, suggesting some other source, now lost.
Girl/Female
Arabic, French
Useful
Boy/Male
Assamese, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Marathi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Traditional
Lord Shiva
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu
Everything Possible to her; Goddess Durga
Boy/Male
Indian
Lord Shiva
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Weak
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a.
Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
n.
Neat, without elegance or dignity; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons.
v. t.
To make smug, or spruce.
v. t.
To make smart or spruce; -- usually with up.
a.
Shining; elegant; spruce.
imp. & p. p.
of Spruce
a.
Nice,; smart; spruce; affected; simpering.
n
An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom.
a.
Smart; jaunty; spruce. See Smirk, a.
n.
The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers.
a.
Prussia leather; pruce.
a.
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.
v. i.
To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up.
a.
The wood or timber of the spruce tree.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Spruce
v. t.
To dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce.
n.
Sprightly; dashing.
v.
Amorous; wanton; gay; spruce.
n.
An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, / Tsuga, Canadensis); hemlock spruce.
v. i.
Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.