meaning of parcel
1. A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
2. 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.
4. A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet.
5. To divide and distribute by parts or portions; -- often with out or into.
6. To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
7. To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customers purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc.
8. Part or half; in part; partially. Shak. [Sometimes hyphened with the word following. ]
9. the result of parcelling out or sharing; "death gets more than its share of attention from
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