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Shak., Hamlet, v. 1. 259. 12. A full set of musical settings of the congregational or choral canticles, chants, etc., of a liturgy, especially of the Anglican liturgy. It does not include metrical hymns or special anthems. The full list of parts for the Anglican morning prayer, communion office, and evening prayer includes the Venite, Te Deum, Benedicite, Benedictus (Dominus), Jubilate, Kyrie, Nicene Creed, Sanctus, Agnus, Benedictus (qui venit), Gloria in Excels is, Magnificat, Cantate, Nunc Dimittis, and Deus Misereatur; but all of these are not usually con tained in any one service. 13. Things required for use; furniture. Especially-( a ) A set of things required for table use: as, a dinner- service ; a service of plate. A dinner-party [was] given by a certain noble lord, at which the whole service was of silver, a silver hot-water dish being placed under every plate. W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 120. (b) An a ortment of table-linen. 14. That which is served. (a) A course served up at table. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable ser vice, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. Shak., Hamlet, iv. 3. 25. Service is ready to go up, man; you must slip on your coat, and come in; we lack waiters pitifully. B. Jonson, Case is Altered, i. 1. breakfast-table. Compare dinner -service. Burial, choral, church, civil service. See the qualifying words.Civil-service reform. See reform.- Claim in a service. See claim1. - Constructive service. See person al service (a), under personal. - Covenanted civil service. See civil . - De ert-service. See de ert. - Dinner-service, a set of dishes, plates, and other table-utensils, usually of porcelain or of fine earthenware, sometimes of plate, etc., intended for use at the dinner-table. It may include what is needed for all the courses of an elaborate dinner, but more generally excludes the de ert-service, and also the silverware, knives, etc. - Divine service. See divine.- Dry service. See dry ma , under ma 1.Free services. See free . - Full service. (a) A setting of the musical parts of a church service for a chorus, without solos. Compare full anthem , under anthem . (b) A service in which music is used as much as po ible. - General service. See service of an heir, below. - Harlequin, heriot, honorary, life-saving service. See the qualifying words.- Lunch-service, a set of the utensils required for the lunch-table. Merchant, personal service. See the adjectives. - Plain service, in Anglican usage, an office which is simply read, sung on one note, or pronounced without any musical or choral accompaniment. Predial services. See predial.- Preventive service. See coast - guard . - Real services. Same as pre dial services. - Revenue-cutter service. See revenue . Secret service. See secret . - Service of an heir, in Scots law , a proceeding before a jury for ascertaining and determining the heir of a person deceased. It is either general or special . A general service determines generally who is heir of another; a special service ascertains who is heir to him in respect of particular lands, etc. Service of a writ, proce , etc., in law , the communication of it to the person concerned in the manner required by law, as by delivering it to him, or by reading it to him, or by leaving an attested copy with him. - Service of the Horn. Same as cornage , 1. - Service paste. See pastel . - Substituted service, or service by substitution, a mode of serving a proce upon a defendant by posting it up in some conspicuous or public place, or delivering it to a neighboring person, or both: allowed when entrance to his dwelling cannot be effected. The phrase is also applied to publication and mailing when allowed (as in some cases of absence, etc.) as substitutes for personal service. Table-service, a set of utensils for the table, of any one or material: as, a cut-gla table - service , a silver table - service , etc., in any case including the articles commonly made of the material in question or required for the purpose in question. - Tenure by divine service. See divine. Three hours' service. See hour. To have seen service. (a) To have been in active military or naval service; to have made campaigns. (b) Figuratively, to have been put to hard use or wear.