parcel : Idioms & Phrases

• an account given by the seller to the buyer of the several articles purchased, with the price of each.

Webster 1913

• noun a thin explosive device inside an envelope or package and detonated when opened
  letter bomb; package bomb.
  

WordNet

• noun an extended area of land
  piece of land; piece of ground; parcel; tract.
  

WordNet

• an office where parcels are received for keeping or forwarding and delivery.

Webster 1913

• verb administer or bestow, as in small portions
  dish out; deal; dispense; distribute; dole out; administer; allot; lot; deal out; mete out; shell out.
  
  • administer critical remarks to everyone present
  • dole out some money
  • shell out pocket money for the children
  • deal a blow to someone
  • the machine dispenses soft drinks

WordNet

• a half poet; a poor poet. Obs.

Webster 1913

• noun postal service that handles packages
  

WordNet

• that department of the post office concerned with the collection and transmission of parcels.

Webster 1913

Par"cel-mele` adverb

Etymology

See Parcel, and Meal a part.

Definitions

1. By parcels or parts. Obs. Chaucer.

Webster 1913

• adjective satellite given out in portions
  apportioned; doled out; dealt out; meted out.
  

WordNet

• an essential or constituent portion; a reduplicative phrase. Cf. might and main, kith and kin, etc. "She was . . . part and parcel of the race and place." Howitt.

Webster 1913

• (Naut.), to wind strips of tarred canvas tightly arround it. Totten.

Webster 1913

• (Naut.), to cover it with a strip of tarred canvas.

Webster 1913