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Parcel   /pˈɑrsəl/   Listen
noun
Parcel  n.  
1.
A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part. (Archaic) "A parcel of her woe." "Two parcels of the white of an egg." "The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government."
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."
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."
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.


verb
Parcel  v. t.  (past & past part. parceled or parcelled; pres. part. parceling or parcelling)  
1.
To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with out or into. "Their woes are parceled, mine are general." "These ghostly kings would parcel out my power." "The broad woodland parceled into farms."
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."
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.
To parcel a seam (Naut.), to cover it with a strip of tarred canvas.


adjective
Parcel  adj., adv.  Part or half; in part; partially. (Sometimes hyphened with the word following.) "The worthy dame was parcel-blind." "One that... was parcel-bearded (partially bearded)."
Parcel poet, a half poet; a poor poet. (Obs.)





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... special advantage of accounting for the imperfections and failures as well as for successes. It not only accounts for them, but turns them to practical account. It explains the seeming waste as being part and parcel of a great economical process. Without the competing multitude, no struggle for life; and without this, no natural selection and survival of the fittest, no continuous adaptation to changing surroundings, no diversification and improvement, leading from lower up ...
— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray
... and a fresh instalment, later than the first batch, follows, with more particulars about authors. Here we find the attributions of the very large series of imitative Eastern tales already noticed, and to be followed in this new parcel by Soirees Bretonnes, to Thomas Simon Gueulette. The thirty-first opens with the Funestine of Beauchamps[243]—an ingenious title and heroine-name, for it avoids the unnatural sounds so common, is a quite possible feminine appellation, ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury
... Bonnet and Robinet. Buffon also was influenced by it. Towards the beginning of the 19th century the idea was taken up eagerly by the transcendental school and by them given, in their theories of the "one animal," a more morphological turn. Their recapitulation theory was part and parcel ...
— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
... fold of his scarlet sash a small parcel neatly folded in white paper as fresh and spotless as himself. Holding it in his fingers, he went on: "I happened to be at Heavy Tree Hill early this morning before sun-up. In the darkness I struck your cabin, ...
— The Three Partners • Bret Harte
... have been at an end for us within the next two or three days; whereas by choosing the alternative we at least save our lives; and that is the main thing with us at present. There would have been no comfort or satisfaction in being tortured to death by a parcel of savages, after having come so far and done so much. Besides, if we are to hunt and fish for these women we must be free to come and go pretty much as we please. And do you need me to tell you what we shall do as soon ...
— Two Gallant Sons of Devon - A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess • Harry Collingwood


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