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Parcel \Par"cel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Parceled}or {Parcelled};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Parceling} or {Parcelling}.]
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1. To divide and distribute by parts or portions; -- often
with out or into. "Their woes are parceled, mine are
general." --Shak.
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These ghostly kings would parcel out my power.
--Dryden.
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The broad woodland parceled into farms. --Tennyson.
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2. To add a parcel or item to; to itemize. [R.]
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That mine own servant should
Parcel the sum of my disgraces by
Addition of his envy. --Shak.
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3. To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's
purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc.
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{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.
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Parcel \Par"cel\, 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.
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Two parcels of the white of an egg. --Arbuthnot.
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The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of
self-government. --J. A.
Symonds.
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2. (Law) A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of
land is part and parcel of another piece.
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3. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or
quantity; a collection; a group.
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This youthful parcel
Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing. --Shak.
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4. A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle;
a package; a packet.
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'Tis like a parcel sent you by the stage. --Cowper.
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{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}.
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Parcel \Par"cel\, a. & adv.
Part or half; in part; partially. --Shak. [Sometimes hyphened
with the word following.]
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The worthy dame was parcel-blind. --Sir W.
Scott.
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One that . . . was parcel-bearded [partially bearded].
--Tennyson.
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{Parcel poet}, a half poet; a poor poet. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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