parcel

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Parceled r Parcelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Parceling or Parcelling. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To divide and distribute by parts or portions; -- often with out or into. “Their woes are parceled, mine are general.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

These ghostly kings would parcel out my power. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The broad woodland parceled into farms. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To add a parcel or item to; to itemize. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That mine own servant should
Parcel the sum of my disgraces by
Addition of his envy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 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. [ Archaic ] “A parcel of her woe.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Two parcels of the white of an egg. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government. J. A. Symonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group. [ 1913 Webster ]

This youthful parcel
Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet. [ 1913 Webster ]

'Tis like a parcel sent you by the stage. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & adv. Part or half; in part; partially. Shak. [ Sometimes hyphened with the word following. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The worthy dame was parcel-blind. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

One that . . . was parcel-bearded [ partially bearded ]. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Parcel poet, a half poet; a poor poet. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also parcelling. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) Long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used, also, in mousing on the stayes, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ See Parcel, and Meal a part. ] By parcels or parts. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]