Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . ch in flower: of very slow growth o, fruit, slmwing section. and attains a great age. The tindier is \abiable, very heavy, fine-grained, and susceiitible of a high ]>olish, possess-ing a strength and durability which particularlyailapt it for some purposes of the is used also for making nuitheniatical rulers, \ name Wild Service is given to an alliedspecies, Pyriis toriniiialis, also called the Sorb, aeommcm native of the middle and south of Eng-land and of the middle and south of Europe—asmall tree wit
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . ch in flower: of very slow growth o, fruit, slmwing section. and attains a great age. The tindier is \abiable, very heavy, fine-grained, and susceiitible of a high ]>olish, possess-ing a strength and durability which particularlyailapt it for some purposes of the is used also for making nuitheniatical rulers, \ name Wild Service is given to an alliedspecies, Pyriis toriniiialis, also called the Sorb, aeommcm native of the middle and south of Eng-land and of the middle and south of Europe—asmall tree with a siiotted fruit largerthan that of the common hawthorn, which, liketh(! fruit of the true service, bccomes mellowedaufl jdeasant by kee]iing, :ind is regularly broughtto the market in jiarts of Europe. Largequantities are br<uight to London from Ilerlford-shire. The drieil fruit is used in some places as acure for diarrlicra. The wooil is highly valued. Itis hard and lough, yellowish white, with browinsh-red and dark-brown SERVICE SERVITUDE 329 Service, Musical. arran-iementsof a full catliedral service in the Church of Englandare usually as follows : The introiluct<uy [irayereof inorninj; ami evening service, u]i to the con-clusion of the Ijorils Prayer, are suiij; in veisicles ami responses before the Isalnis, afterthe Creed ami Lords Prayer, and the Litany aresung to the plain-song adapted to them by ^Lar-beck from the equivalents in the Catholic Direc-tory, with some traditional variations; the responses••lie, however, usually sung in harmony, eitlicr inthe festal form hy Tallis, with the plain-song mostlyin the tenor, or in the everyday or ferial form, insimpler harmony. The remaining prayei-s are sungin monotone, with inHections and end-ings. The Vcnite (Psalm xcv.) and Psalms of theday are sung anti])honally to appropriate chants,of which many different oollections are in collec
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