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Webster 1913 Edition
Parcel
Par′cel
,Noun.
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 piece3.
An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
This youthful
Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing.
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
. See parcel post
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
“Their woes are parceled, mine are general.” 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.
[R.]
That mine own servant should
Addition of his envy.
Parcel
the sum of my disgraces byAddition 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.
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.
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)
- 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, so—it 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. […]”
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- I own a small parcel of land between the refinery and the fish cannery.
- (obsolete) A group of birds.
- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- William Shakespeare (c.1564–1616)
- This youthful parcel / Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing.
- 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo
- A parcel of giddy creatures of her own age.
- William Shakespeare (c.1564–1616)
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
- 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.
- John Arbuthnot (1667-1735)
- two parcels of the white of an egg
- John Addington Symonds (1840–1893)
- The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Derived terms
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Related terms
Related terms
Translations
package wrapped for shipment
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division of land bought and sold as a unit
See also
Verb
parcel (third-person singular simple present parcels, present participle parceling or parcelling, simple past and past participle parceled or parcelled)
- To wrap something up into the form of a package.
- To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.
- 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
- Shakespeare
- 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.
- Shakespeare
Translations
to wrap into a package
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to wrap a strip around the end of a rope
Adverb
parcel (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Part or half; in part; partially.
- Sir Walter Scott
- The worthy dame was parcel-blind.
- Tennyson
- One that […] was parcel-bearded.
- Sir Walter Scott