A part; a portion of any thing taken separately. The same experiments succeed on two parcels of the white of an egg.

A quantity; any mass.

A part belonging to a whole; as in law, one piece of ground is part and parcel of a greater piece.

Asmall bundle or package of goods.

A number of persons; on contempt.

A number or quantity; in contempt; as a parcel of fair words.

To divide into parts or portions; as, to parcel an estate among heirs. These ghostly kings would parcel out my power.

To make up into a mass. To parcel a seam, in seamen’s language, to lay canvas over it and daub it with pitch.