spruce partridge (sprospar trij)

The spotted or Canada grouse, Canace or Dendragapus can a dens is: so called in New England, Canada, etc., in distinction from the ruffed grouse, there known as the partridge, and because the bird is highly characteristic of the coniferous woods. See cut under Canace. See pinel . To spruce-pine (sprös'pin), n. sprucify (sprö si-fi), v . t.; pret. and pp. spruci- fied , ppr. sprucifying . [spruce2 +-i-fy.] make spruce or fine; smarten. Urqu hart, tr. of Rabelais, iii. 37. ( Davies .) [Rare.] Spruce bud-louse, an aphid of the subfamily Cherme sinæ, Adelges abieticolens , which deforms the end-shoots of the spruce in the United States, producing large swell- ings sometimes mistaken for the natural cones. In Eu- rope A. coccineus and A. strobil obi us have the same habit. -Spruce bud-worm, the larva of a tortricid moth, as Tortrix fumiferana , which eats the end-buds of the spruce spr spruel (sprö), n. [Origin obscure.] 1. In in northeastern parts of the United States, especially in casting metal, one of the pa ages lead- Maine. Other spruce bud-worms are the reddish-yellow, ing from the "skimming-gate" Steganoptycha ratzeburgiana ; the black-headed, Teras mold; also, the metal which fills the variana; and the red, Gelechia obliquistrigella . - Spruce cone-worm, the larva of a phycid moth, Pin i pest is ren i- sprue or sprue-gate after solidification: culella, which bores the fresh young cones of spruces in same as dead - head , 1 (a). Also called sprue- the United States. Spruce leaf-hopper, an oblong gate . 2. A A piece pi of metal or wood used by a shining-black leaf-hopper, A thy san us abietis , which pune, molder in making the ingate through the sand. tures spruce-needles in May and June in the United States. - Spruce plume-moth, Oxyptilus nigrociliatus. E. H. Knight . Its larva feeds on spruce, and it is the only member of sprue2, n. See sprew. saw-fly, a common saw-fly, Lophyrus abietis , whose pale-pr the Pterophoridæ known to infest any conifer. - Spruce sprue-hole (sprö hol), n. In casting metal, the Sprue, def. 2. gate, ingate, or pouring-hole. sprug1 (sprug), v.; pret. and pp. sprugged, ppr. make smart. green larvæ defoliate spruce, fir, pine, and cedar in the sprug United States, but especially spruce. - Spruce timber sprug beetle, Xyloterus bivittatus, the most injurious of sev- sprugging. [Cf. sprag3, sprack.] I. I. trans. To eral scolytids which attack the spruce in the United States. Others are Xyloborus (or Xyleborus ) cælat us, Cryp turgus atom us, Pityophthorus materiarius, and Hylurgops pinifex. - Tideland spruce, Picea Sitchensis, a spruce found from Alaska to California near the coast, best developed near the mouth of the Columbia river, where for 50 miles in each direction it forms a forest-belt 10 or 15 miles wide. It grows from 140 to 180 feet high, and furnishes an important light, soft, and straight-grained timber, largely manufactured into lumber, and used for construction, inside finish, cooperage, dunnage of ve els, etc. Sargent. - White spruce. (a) Picea alba, the most important timber-tree of subarctic America, extending into northern New England, and at its best in northern Montana. Its timber in commerce is not distinguished from that of the black spruce. Also single spruce. (b) 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. (c) P. pungens, a rare and local mountain species of the western United States. Also called blue spruce, Colorado blue spruce. Sargent. spruce (sprös), n. An abbreviation of spruce beer. [Colloq.] "Come, friend," said Hawk-eye, drawing out a keg from beneath a cover of leaves, "try a little spruce ; 'twill ... quicken the life in your bosom." II. in trans. To dre neatly: generally with up . [Prov. Eng.] sprug2 (sprug), n. [ Cf.sprig2 , sprong , and spug , a sparrow; origin uncertain. The sparrow, Pa er domestic us . [Scotch and prov. Eng.] sprung (sprung). 1. Preterit and past participle of spring . -2. Tipsy; drunk. [Colloq.] Captain Tuck was borne dead drunk by his reeling troops to the Tavern. Ex-Corporal Whiston with his friends sallied from the store well sprung . S. Judd, Margaret, i. 13. sprunkt, n. [Origin obscure. Cf. sprunt2.] A concubine ( Child ); a sweetheart. With fryars and monks, and their fine sprunks , I make my chiefest prey. The King's Disguise (Child's Ballads, V. 378). IMG:content-1869.png:[blocks in formation] 2. To spring forward or outward. See; this sweet simpering babe, Dear image of thyself; see! how it sprunts With joy at thy approach! J. F. Cooper , Last of Mohicans, vi. sprunt1 (sprunt), v. i. [A var. of sprent : see spruce-beer (sprös'bër), n. [A partial trans las prent1, sprint.] 1. To spring up; germinate. tion and accommodation (as if 'beer of spruce'2 or spruce-fir ( spruce3 + beer1 ), or as if Spruce beer , i. e. 'beer of Spruce' or Pru ia ( Spruce , or Pruce , Pru ia (see sprucel ), + beer1 )) of G. spro en- bier , lit. 'sprouts-beer.' obtained from the young sprouts of the black spruce-fir, spro , a sprout (= E. sprot ), + bier = E. beer : see sprot1 and beer1 .] A beer made from the leaves and small branches of the Somerville , Hobbinol, iii. 393. To sprunt up, to bristle up; show sudden resentment. [Colloq., U. S.] sprunt1 (sprunt), n. [ spuilzie 3t. Anything short and not easily bent, as a stiff curl. "This sprunt its pertne sure will lose When laid," said he, "to soak in ooze." Congreve, An Impo ible Thing.