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Array and Spruce

noun

  • An orderly arrangement.
    • usage: "an array of troops in battle order"
  • An impressive display.
    • usage: "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"
  • Especially fine or decorative clothing.
  • An arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics.

verb

  • Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.
    • usage: "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"
  • Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.

noun

  • Light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork.
  • Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea.

verb

adjective

  • (n.) Neat, without elegance or dignity; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons.
  • (v.t.) To dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce.
  • (a.) Prussia leather; pruce.
  • (a.) The wood or timber of the spruce tree.
  • (v.i.) To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up.
  • (n.) Sprightly; dashing.
  • (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.