v. Obs. [f. SPRUCE a.] trans. To make spruce. Also with it in refl. sense.
1611. Cotgr., Pimper, to sprucifie, or finifie it; curiously to pranke, trimme, or tricke vp himselfe.
1661. K. W., Conf. Charac., Cambr. Minion (1860), 78. An emblematicall ass sprucefyed with the gorgeous trappings of a lofty beusephalus.
1676. Poor Robin’s Intell., 15–22 Aug., 1/2. Sprucifying himself like a Country Bridegroom he came up to her brush’d and powder’d.
