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Parcel - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Parcel : (noun)
1: a wrapped container [syn: package]
2: the result of parcelling out or sharing; "death gets more
than its share of attention from theologicans" [syn: portion,
share]
3: an extended area of land [syn: tract, piece of land, piece
of ground, parcel of land]
4: a collection of things wrapped or boxed together [syn: package,
bundle, packet]
(verb)
1: divide into parts; "The developers parceled the land"
2: cover with strips of canvas; "parcel rope"
3: make into a wrapped container
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
Two parcels of the white of an egg. --Arbuthnot.
The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of
self-government. --J. A.
Symonds.
2. (Law) A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of
land is part and parcel of another piece.
3. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or
quantity; a collection; a group.
This youthful parcel Of noble bachelors stand at my
disposing. --Shak.
4. A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle;
a package; a packet.
'Tis like a parcel sent you by the stage. --Cowper.
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.
Part and parcel. See under Part.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Parcel : \Par"cel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Parceledor Parcelled;
p. pr. & vb. n. Parceling or Parcelling.]
1. To divide and distribute by parts or portions; -- often
with out or into. ``Their woes are parceled, mine are
general.'' --Shak.
These ghostly kings would parcel out my power.
--Dryden.
The broad woodland parceled into farms. --Tennyson.
2. To add a parcel or item to; to itemize. [R.]
That mine own servant should Parcel the sum of my
disgraces by Addition of his envy. --Shak.
3. To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's
purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc.
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Parcel : \Par"cel\, a. & adv.
Part or half; in part; partially. --Shak. [Sometimes hyphened
with the word following.]
The worthy dame was parcel-blind. --Sir W.
Scott.
One that . . . was parcel-bearded [partially bearded].
--Tennyson.
Parcel poet, a half poet; a poor poet. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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PARCEL, estates. Apart of the estate. 1 Com. Dig. Abatement, H 511 p. 133; 5
Com. Dig. Grant, E 10, p. 545. ToParcel : is to divide an estate. Bac, Ab.
Conditions, 0.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Parcel |
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