parcel

A package wrapped for shipment.

I saw a brown paper parcel on my doorstep.

At twilight in the summer[…]the mice come out. They[…]eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly[…]on the floor.

An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.

An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).

A division of land bought and sold as a unit.

I own a small parcel of land between the refinery and the fish cannery.

A group of birds.

To wrap something up into the form of a package.

To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.

Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.

To divide and distribute by parts or portions; often with off, out or into.

Their woes are parcell’d, mine are general.

Thoſe ghoſtly Kings would parcel out my pow’r, / And all the fatneſs of my Land devour;

To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.

[…] that mine own servant should / Parcel the sum of my disgraces by / Addition of his envy!

Part or half; in part; partially.

Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet […]

[…] as the worthy dame was parcel blind and more than parcel deaf, knowledge was excluded by two principal entrances […]