P'ARCEL, noun [Latin 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 transitive 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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