parceln.[F. parcelle a small part, fr. (assumed) LL. particella, dim. of L. pars. See Part, n., and cf. Particle.]1. A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.(Chaucer.)Two parcels of the white of an egg. (Arbuthnot.)The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government. (J. A. Symonds.)2. (Law) A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.()3. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.()This youthful parcel
Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing. (Shak.)4. A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet.()'Tis like a parcel sent you by the stage. (Cowper.)Bill of parcels. See under 6th Bill. -- Parcel office, an office where parcels are received for keeping or forwarding and delivery. -- Parcel post, that department of the post office concerned with the collection and transmission of parcels; also, the transmission through the parcel post deparment; as, to send a package by parcel post. See parcel post in the vocabulary. -- Part and parcel. See under Part.()v. t.()1. To divide and distribute by parts or portions; -- often with out or into.(Shak.)These ghostly kings would parcel out my power. (Dryden.)The broad woodland parceled into farms. (Tennyson.)2. To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.()That mine own servant should
Parcel the sum of my disgraces by
Addition of his envy. (Shak.)3. To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc.()To parcel a rope (Naut.), to wind strips of tarred canvas tightly arround it. Totten. -- To parcel a seam (Naut.), to cover it with a strip of tarred canvas.()a. & adv. Part or half; in part; partially.()The worthy dame was parcel-blind. (Sir W. Scott.)One that . . . was parcel-bearded [partially bearded]. (Tennyson.)Parcel poet, a half poet; a poor poet. [Obs.] B. Jonson.()