'Parcel' definitions:

Definition of 'parcel'

(from WordNet)
noun
A wrapped container [syn: package, parcel]
noun
The allotment of some amount by dividing something; "death gets more than its share of attention from theologians" [syn: parcel, portion, share]
noun
An extended area of land [syn: tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel]
noun
A collection of things wrapped or boxed together [syn: package, bundle, packet, parcel]
verb
Divide into parts; "The developers parceled the land"
verb
Cover with strips of canvas; "parcel rope"
verb
Make into a wrapped container

Definition of 'Parcel'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Two parcels of the white of an egg. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
  • The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government. --J. A. Symonds. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Law) A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group. [1913 Webster]
  • This youthful parcel Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet. [1913 Webster]
  • 'Tis like a parcel sent you by the stage. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Parcel'

From: GCIDE
  • Parcel \Par"cel\, a. & adv. Part or half; in part; partially. --Shak. [Sometimes hyphened with the word following.] [1913 Webster]
  • The worthy dame was parcel-blind. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
  • One that . . . was parcel-bearded [partially bearded]. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • Parcel poet, a half poet; a poor poet. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Parcel'

From: GCIDE
  • Parcel \Par"cel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Parceledor Parcelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Parceling or Parcelling.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. To divide and distribute by parts or portions; -- often with out or into. "Their woes are parceled, mine are general." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • These ghostly kings would parcel out my power. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • The broad woodland parceled into farms. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To add a parcel or item to; to itemize. [R.] [1913 Webster]
  • That mine own servant should Parcel the sum of my disgraces by Addition of his envy. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'parcel'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Parcel'