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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).
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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’.
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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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v. i.
Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
v. t.
To make smug, or spruce.
n.
An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, / Tsuga, Canadensis); hemlock spruce.
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.
Prussia leather; pruce.
v. i.
To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up.
imp. & p. p.
of Spruce
a.
Nice,; smart; spruce; affected; simpering.
v. t.
To dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce.
a.
The wood or timber of the spruce tree.
v. t.
To make smart or spruce; -- usually with up.
n.
The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Spruce
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.
a.
Smart; jaunty; spruce. See Smirk, a.
v.
Amorous; wanton; gay; spruce.
n.
Neat, without elegance or dignity; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons.
a.
Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
n.
Sprightly; dashing.
a.
Shining; elegant; spruce.