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of the L., ii. 37. 8. Profe ion of respect uttered or sent: as, my service to you, sir. Pray do my service to his majesty. Shak ., Hen. VIII., iii. 1. 179. Pray, give my service to... all my friends and acquaintance in general who do ask after me. Steele , Tatler, No. 87. A short squat omnibus,.. which was then the daily service between Cloister ham and external mankind. Dickens, Edwin Drood, vi. 19. A service-pipe. I had taken up about a dozen services when I approached one that had been only a comparatively short time in duty. Sci . Amer . Supp . , p. 9100. Active service. See active . At one's service, placed at one's disposal; free for one to use or enjoy. - At your service, ready to serve you: a phrase of civility. I am, sir, a practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a profe or of the art of puffing, at your service or anybody else's. Sheridan, The Critic, i. 2. Monte negro, Dalmatia, Croatia, etc. The dialect spoken in Croatia is often called Croatian , Servian being restricted to the other dialects; the whole group of dialects is sometimes called Serbo - Croatian . Abbreviated Sero . Also Serbian . servicel (sèrvis), n. [Early mod. E. (and dial.) also sarvice ; service , servyce, servise , serryse, servise , service , F. service = Pr. ser vis i = Sp. servicio = Pg. serviço = It. servizio , servire , serve: see servel .] 1. The act of serving, or attendance, in any sense; the rendering of duty to another; obedience; the performance of any office or labor for another. As glad, as humble, as bisy in servyse, And eek in love, as she was wont to be, Was she to him in every maner wyse. Chaucer , Clerk's Tale, 1. 549. Upon your oath of service to the pope. Shak., K. John, v. 1. 23. Wel I woot my servyce is in vayn, My gerdoun is but brestyng of myn herte. Chaucer , Franklin's Tale, 1. 244. Has Arthur spoken aught? or would yourself, Now weary of my service and devoir, Henceforth be truer to your faultle lord? Tennyson, Lance lot and Elaine. 10. Public religious worship and instruction conducted according to the forms or methods prescribed by ecclesiastical law, precept, or custom in any given communion: as, the ser vices for the following week are, etc.