What is the name meaning of SPRUCE. Phrases containing SPRUCE
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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’.
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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).
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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Girl/Female
Gujarati, Indian, Tamil
Hindu Month Name
Female
Egyptian
, Sacred, Holy.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Chaste, Modest
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Traditional
The Eye of Visnu
Male
English
English variant spelling of French Aubin, AUBYN means "like Albus," i.e. "white."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a lost or unidentified minor place, possibly in East Anglia, where the name is most common, and probably so called from Old English gÄra ‘gore’, ‘triangular piece of land’ + wudu ‘wood’.
Girl/Female
Indian, Sanskrit, Tamil
Roaming; Cloud; Elephant
Girl/Female
American, British, English, French
From Devonshire; Divine
Boy/Male
American, British, English, French
Riverbank; Derived from Place-name Deverel
Boy/Male
Australian, Greek, Latin, Polish
Laurel; From Laurentum
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imp. & p. p.
of Spruce
n.
The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers.
v. t.
To make smug, or spruce.
v. t.
To make smart or spruce; -- usually with up.
v. i.
Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
a.
Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
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.
The wood or timber of the spruce tree.
v. t.
To dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce.
a.
Smart; jaunty; spruce. See Smirk, a.
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.
n.
An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, / Tsuga, Canadensis); hemlock spruce.
a.
Nice,; smart; spruce; affected; simpering.
n.
Sprightly; dashing.
a.
Prussia leather; pruce.
v.
Amorous; wanton; gay; spruce.
a.
Shining; elegant; spruce.
v. i.
To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up.
n.
Neat, without elegance or dignity; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons.