P`ARCEL, n. L. 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, 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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