n. Prussian leather. Compare Pruce.Smart in dress and appearance; affecting neatness or dapperness, especially in dress; trim; hence often, with a depreciatory force, dandified; smug.Over-fastidious; excessively nice; finical.Synonyms Foppish, etc. (see finical), smart, jaunty, nice, dandyish.To make spruce; trim or dress so as to present a smart appearance: sometimes followed by up.To brown, as the crust of bread, by heating the oven too much.To become spruce; assume or affect an air of smartness in dress: often followed by up.n. A coniferous tree of the genus Picea; a spruce-fir.n. P. Engelmanni, the most valuable timber-tree of the central Rocky Mountain region, where it forms extensive forests. Its wood is of a white or pale-yellow color, light and soft, in Colorado affording lumber, fuel, and charcoal. The bark is rich in tannin, which is locally utilized.n. P. pungens, a rare and local mountain species of the western United States. Also called blue spruce, Colorado blue spruce.n. An abbreviation of spruce-beer.