now vs spruce

now

adj
  • Fashionable; popular; up to date; current. 

  • Present; current. 

adv
  • Used to indicate a context of urgency. 

  • Sometimes; occasionally. 

  • Used to address a switching side, or sharp change in attitude from before. (In this usage, now is usually emphasized). 

  • At the present time. 

  • Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke. 

  • At the time reached within a narration. 

  • Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times. 

conj
  • Since, because, in light of the fact; often with that. 

intj
  • Indicates a signal to begin. 

noun
  • The state of not paying attention to the future or the past. 

  • The present time. 

  • A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant. 

spruce

adj
  • Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person). 

noun
  • Made of the wood of the spruce. 

  • The wood of a spruce. 

  • Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir. 

verb
  • To tease. 

  • To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance). 

  • To arrange neatly; tidy up. 

How often have the words now and spruce occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )