Parcel

(colloq. pär'sl), n. [Fr. parcelle, a small part, diminutive of part, Lat. pars, equivalent to Lat. particula, diminutive of pars, partis, a part; Pr. parcela, Pg. parcella.]

1Sense 1. A portion of any thing taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part. [Rare.]

The same experiments succeed on two parcels of the white of an egg. Arbuthnot.

2Sense 2. An indiscriminate or indefinite measure or quantity; any mass or quantity; a collection; a lot.

3Sense 3. A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet.

4Sense 4. (Law.) A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.

v.t. [imp. & p.p. PARCELED, OR PARCELLED; p. pr. & vb. n. PARCELING, OR PARCELLING.] 1. To divide and distribute by parts or portions;—often with out. Their woes are parceled, mine are general. Shak. These ghostly kings would parcel out my power. Dryden. 2. To make up into a mass. [Rare.] To parcel a rope (Naut.), to wind tightly around it strips of tarred canvas. Totten.