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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.

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