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Webster 1913 Edition


Parcel

Par′cel

,
Noun.
[F.
parcelle
a small part, fr. (assumed) LL.
particella
, dim. of L.
pars
. See
Part
,
Noun.
, and cf.
Particle
.]
1.
A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
[Archaic]
“A parcel of her woe.”
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.
Shakespeare
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
.

Par′cel

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Parceled
or
Parcelled
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Parceling
or
Parcelling
.]
1.
To divide and distribute by parts or portions; – often with
out
or
into
.
“Their woes are parceled, mine are general.”
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.
[R.]
That mine own servant should
Parcel
the sum of my disgraces by
Addition of his envy.
Shakespeare
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.

Par′cel

,
Adj.
&
adv.
Part or half; in part; partially.
Shak.
[Sometimes hyphened with the word following.]
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Parcel

P`ARCEL

,
Noun.
[L. particula, particle, from pars, part.]
1.
A part; a portion of any thing taken separately.
The same experiments succeed on two parcels of the white of an egg.
2.
A quantity; any mass.
3.
A part belonging to a whole; as in law, one piece of ground is part and parcel of a greater piece.
4.
A small bundle or package of goods.
5.
A number of persons; on contempt.
6.
A number or quantity; in contempt; as a parcel of fair words.

P`ARCEL

,
Verb.
T.
To divide into parts or portions; as, to parcel an estate among heirs.
These ghostly kings would parcel out my power.
1.
To make up into a mass. [Little used.]
To parcel a seam, in seamen's language, to lay canvas over it and daub it with pitch.

Definition 2024


parcel

parcel

English

Noun

parcel (plural parcels)

  1. A package wrapped for shipment.
    I saw a brown paper parcel on my doorstep.
    • 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, chapter II:
      At twilight in the summer [] the mice come out. They [] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly [] on the floor.
    • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Lisson Grove Mystery:
      “H'm ! he said, so, soit is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what [...] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”
  2. An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
  3. A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
    I own a small parcel of land between the refinery and the fish cannery.
  4. (obsolete) A group of birds.
  5. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
  6. A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
  7. A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
    A certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.

Synonyms

  • (package wrapped for shipment): package
  • (division of land bought and sold as a unit): plot

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Verb

parcel (third-person singular simple present parcels, present participle parceling or parcelling, simple past and past participle parceled or parcelled)

  1. To wrap something up into the form of a package.
  2. To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.
    Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
  3. To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with out or into.
    • Shakespeare
      Their woes are parcelled, mine are general.
    • Dryden
      These ghostly kings would parcel out my power.
    • Tennyson
      the broad woodland parcelled into farms
  4. To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
    • Shakespeare
      That mine own servant should / Parcel the sum of my disgraces by / Addition of his envy.

Translations

Adverb

parcel (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Part or half; in part; partially.
    • Sir Walter Scott
      The worthy dame was parcel-blind.
    • Tennyson
      One that [] was parcel-bearded.

Anagrams


Portuguese

Noun

parcel m (plural parcéis)

  1. a shoal, a sandbank

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