parcel 
Nature answers all he asks ; 
Hand in hand with her he walks, 
Face to face with her he talks, 
Part and parcel of her joy 
Blessings on the barefoot boy ! 
Whittier, Barefoot Boy. 
All things are taken from us, and become 
Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. 
Tennyson, Lotos-Eaters, Choric Song. 
(a) A fragment ; piece ; bit. 
Olyves sum in rootes grafle, and rende 
Hem after out with parcells of the roote. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 141. 
Wily, what parcel of man hast thou lighted on for a mas- 
ter? B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, ii. 1. 
More beautiful the prospect of that building which is all 
visible at one view than what discovers itself to the sight 
by parcels and degrees. 
Fuller, Worthies, Canterbury, II. 185. 
England about to be divided into little parcels, like a 
chess-board '. Sydney Smith, To Lord Holland. 
() An item or particular ; a detail. 
I sent your grace 
The parcels and particulars of our grief. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 2. 36. 
2. An indefinite number, quantity, or measure 
forming a group, mass, or lot : as, a parcel of 
fools ; a parcel of rubbish. 
They bought allso a parcell of goats, which they distrib- 
uted at home as they saw neede & occasion. 
Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 209. 
Now, don't let us give ourselves a parcel of airs, and 
pretend that the oaths we make free with in this land of 
liberty of ours are our own. 
Sterne, Tristram Shandy, iii. 12. 
I think the English a parcel of brutes ; and I'll go back 
to France as fast as I can. Miss Burney, Evelina, xiv. 
Why are they Ipaintersi to be be- knighted, like a parcel 
of aldermen ? Thackeray, Char. Sketches, The Artists. 
3. A number of things wrapped or otherwise 
put up together; a package, containing a num- 
ber of articles or a single one ; a small bundle. 
I received that choice Parcel of Tobacco your Servant 
brought me. Howell, Letters, iv. 46. 
If you wanted to send a parcel to anywhere in the coun- 
try, you confided it to the guard of the coach. 
W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 6. 
4. pi. In law, that part of a deed or conveyance 
which describes the property conveyed, toge- 
ther with the boundaries thereof, in order to its 
easy identification. 5. Same as parceling, 1. 
Bill of parcels. See bill*. Parcels post, that de- 
partmentof the post-office business of the United Kingdom 
which relates to the carriage and delivery of small parcels. 
parcel (par'sel), v. t. ; pret. and pp. parceled or 
parcelled, ppr. parceling or parcelling. [< F. 
parceller, parcel; from the noun.] 1. To di- 
vide into parts or portions: generally with out. 
These ghostly kings would parcel out my power. 
Dryden, Indian Emperor, i. 2. 
Our time was parcelled out in a succession of tasks. 
Goldsmith, Proper Enjoyment of Life. 
', Smooth slate 
In square divisions parcelled out. 
Wordsicorth, Prelude, i. 
In the divided or social states these functions are par- 
celled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his 
stint of the joint work. Emerson, Misc., p. 72. 
Then the great Hall was wholly broken down, 
And the broad woodland parcell'd into farms. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
2. To particularize ; specify. 
What a wounding shame is this, 
. . . that mine own servant should 
Parcel the sum of my disgraces by 
Addition of his envy ! 
Shak., A. and C., v. 2. 168. 
3. To cover with strips of canvas ; wrap with 
parceling. 
parcel (par'sel), adv. [< ME. parcel; an ellip- 
tical use of parcel, n., for in parcel, like part, 
adv., for in part. Cf. parcelly.'] Partly; in 
part; partially; to some extent. 
Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt, goblet . . . 
to marry me. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. L 94. 
He is parcel lawyer, and in my conscience much of then- 
religion. Beau, and Fl., Woman-Hater, i. 3. 
Beat not your brains to understand their parcel-greek, 
porcrf-latin gibberish. Dekker, Gull's Hornbook, p. 60. 
The principal personage is Marcelia, parcel witch, wholly 
shameless. Ticknor, Span. Lit., I. 242. 
parceled, parcelled (par'seld), a. [< parcel 
+ -ed.~] Partial ; not general. Schmidt. 
Alas ! I am the mother of these moans ! 
Their woes are parcell'd, mine are general. 
Shak., Rich. III., ii. 2. 81. 
parceling, parcelling (par'sel-ing), n. [Ver- 
bal n. of parcel, >.] 1. Naut., long narrow 
strips of can- 
vas, generally 
tarred, wound 
spirally about 
a rope so as to 
give a smooth A Rope Wormed and Partly Parceled. 
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surface. Also parsling. 2. Xaut., the process 
of wrapping or winding a rope with parceling, 
or tarred strips of canvas. 
parceling-machine (piir'sel-ing-ma-shen"), >< 
1. A press in which yarn, cloth, wool, etc., are 
bundled compactly for tying. 2. A machine 
in which strips of canvas or cloth are coated 
with tar to prepare them for wrapping or wind- 
ing around ropes. E. H. Knight. 
parcelizet(par'sel-iz),0. t. [<.parcel,n., +-ij<-.] 
To divide ; distribute ; parcel. 
Greatnes and glory of a well-Rul'd State 
Is not extinguish! nor extenuate 
By being parcelled to a plurality 
Of petty Kinglings, of a mean Equality. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Captaines. 
parcellation (par-se-la'shgn), n. [< parcel + 
-ation.~\ Division into parts or parcels; dis- 
tribution. 
Hash as such a parcellation of bis troops might seem. 
The American, IX. S50. 
parcelled, . A Middle English form of parcel. 
parcelle'-'t, A Middle English form of pars- 
ley. 
parcel-lift (par'sel-lift), . An elevator or 
dumb-waiter used in shops and warehouses to 
convey packages up or down. [Eng.] 
parcellyt (par'sel-i), adv. [< ME. parcelly ; < 
parcel + -fy 2 .] Part by part; item by item. 
Parcelly, as the heres of eyes don, 
With teres makyng sprancles manyon, 
Kyght so is Raymound tormented full sore, 
Sore wepyng, teres making euermore. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. 8.), L 4015. 
parcel-maker (par'sel-ma'ker), n. One of two 
officers of the British exchequer who formerly 
made the parcels of the escheators' accounts, 
and delivered them to the auditors. 
parcel-mealt (par'sel-mel), adv. [ME. parcel- 
mele, parcel-mel; < parcel + -meal, as in drop- 
meal, piecemeal, etc. ] Piecemeal; separately; 
partly; by parts or portions. 
Thre persons parcel-mele, departable from other. 
Piers Plowman (C), XX. 28. 
parcel-office (piir'sel-of"is), . A place where 
parcels are received for despatch or delivery. 
parcel-paper (par'sel-pa'per), n. Any loose- 
textured unsized paper made or used for wrap- 
ping parcels ; wrapping-paper. 
parcel-post. Same as parcels post (which see, 
under parcel, n.). 
parcel-van (par'sel -van), n. A van for the 
delivery of parcels. [Eng.] 
parcenary (par'se-na-ri), . [ Also parcenery ; 
< OF. parcenerie, < parcenier, a parcener: see 
parcener. ] In law, coheirship; the holding or 
occupation of lands of inheritance by two or 
more persons. It differs from joint tenancy, which is 
created by deed or devise ; whereas parcenary or copar- 
cenary is created by the descent of lands from an ancestor. 
parcenelt, n. A Middle English form of parce- 
ner. 
parcener (par'se-ner), n. [< ME. parcener, par- 
soner, also parcenel, < OF. parcener, parcenier, 
l>arsonnt&r,par<;onier,parfonnier,parconer,6te., 
= Sp. parcionero = Pg.parceiro, < Mii.*partitio- 
narius,partionarius, having a share, one having 
a share, < L. j)artitio(n-) (> OF.pareyon, pardon, 
parson, etc. ), a sharing, share : see partition. Cf. 
partner.] In law, a coheir ; one who holds lands 
jointly with another or others by descent from 
an ancestor, as when land descends to a man's 
daughters, sisters, aunts, cousins, or their rep- 
resentatives. In this case all the heirs inherit as par- 
ceners or coheirs. The term has been sometimes used to 
indicate female cotenaiits only. 
We ben parsoneres of reson. 
Chaucer, Boethius, v. prose 5. 
So nevertheless that the yongest make reasonable 
amends to his parceners for the part which to them be- 
longeth, by the award of good men. 
Lambarde's Perambulation (1596), p. 675. (HaUiwell.) 
These coheirs are then called coparceners ; or, for brev- 
ity, parceners only. Blaclcstone, Com., II. xii. 
parceryt (par'se-ri), . [Appar. for "pareelry, 
< parcel + -ryj or parcenery, < parcener + -y.~\ 
Apportionment ; allotment. 
This part was to Helenus by wylled parcerye lotted. 
Stanihurst, ^Eneid, iii. 
parceyvet, . A Middle English form of per- 
ceive. 
parch (parch), v. [< ME. parchen, paarchen, 
parch; origin uncertain: either (a) a var. form 
and use of perchen, perschen, a rarer form of 
perishen, perischen, perish (in trans, 'kill') (see 
perish 1 ) ; or (6) a var. form and use of perchen, 
pierce, a rarer form of percen, persen, pierce: 
cf. persant, persamit, piercing, as used, e. g., of 
parchment 
sunbeams (see persant); piercing, used of pene- 
trating cold (see pierce).'] I. trans. 1. To ex- 
pose to the strong action of fire, but without 
burning; roast (vegetable produce especially) 
partially by rapid expulsion of moisture. 
And he reached her parched corn, and she did eat. 
Ruth ii. 14. 
M ami Porter moved about as brisk as a parched pea. 
Ualibwrtoti, Sam Slick, Cluckmaker, xxv. 
2. To dry up ; dry to extremity or to the point 
of burning : as, the sun's rays parch the ground ; 
parched with thirst. 
Nor entreat the north 
To make his bleak winds kiss my parclied lips 
And comfort me with cold. Shak., K. John, v. 7. 40. 
The brandish'd sword of God . . . with torrid heat, 
And vapour as the Libyan air adust, 
Began to parch that temperate clime. 
Miltmi, P. L., xii. 636. 
Parched with heat and dust, they were soon distressed 
by excessive thirst. Prescott, 1'erd. and Isa., ii. 12. 
= Sy n. Singe, Sear, etc. See scorch. 
II. intrans. To become very dry ; be scorched. 
We were better parch in Afric sun 
Than in the pride and salt scorn of his eyes. 
Shak., T. and C., i. 3. 370. 
A heart high sorrowful and cloy'd, 
A burning forehead, and & parching tongue. 
Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn. 
parchedness (par'ched-nes), . The state of 
being parched or dried up. 
Neither sheep nor shepherd is to be seen there, but only 
a waste, silent solitude, and one uniform parchedness and 
vacuity. Dr. 11. More, Bef. of Moral Cabbala, i. 81. 
parcheesi, . Seepachisi. 
parchemint, parchemynt, n. Obsolete forms of 
parchment. 
parchemin (par'she-min), i 1 . t. [< F. parche- 
min, parchment: see parchment."] To convert 
into parchment or a substance akin to parch- 
ment, as paper or cotton, by soaking it in dilute 
sulphuric acid. [Rare.] 
The more readily a fibre is parcheinined by the action 
of sulphuric acid, the more difficult it will become to ni- 
trate the same; and the less sulphuric acid acts, . . . the 
more nitric acid comes into play. 
Eisuler, Mod. High Explosives, p. 123. 
parcheminert, [ME., < OF. parcheminier, 
also parcheminour, < ML. pergamenariius, a 
maker or seller of parchment, < pergamena, 
parchment: see parchment.'] A maker or seller 
of parchment. 
The Parchemyners and Bokebynders. 
York Plays (title), p. 56. 
parchingly (par'ching-li), adt. In a parching 
manner; so as to parch. 
parchisi, n. See pachisi. 
parchment (parch'ment), . [< ME. parche- 
ment, perchment (with" excrescent t as in other 
Teut. languages), usually parchemin, parche- 
myn, .percliemin, < OF. parchem in, perchentin, par- 
camin, F. parchemin = Sp.pergamino = Pg. per- 
gaminho = It. pergamena = D.perkament = MLG . 
perment, permet, permint = OHG. permint, j>er- 
ment,permit,l>ermint, berment, l>ermit,pirmit, bir- 
mint='MS.&.pergement,pergmit,Gr.pergament= 
Sw. T>an.pergament, < L. pergamena, pergamiiia 
(also in full charta Pergamena, 'paper of Perga- 
mum'),< Gr. H.epyaian^, parchment, lit. 'paper of 
Pergamum,' prop. adj. (sc. 6t<t>6tpa, 'skin of Per- 
gamum,' or xdprr/, 'paper of Pergamum'), fern, 
of (> L. Pergamenus), of Pergamum, 
, ittpyapov, Pergamus, Pergamum, a 
city of Mysia in Asia Minor, whence parchment 
was originally brought.] 1. The skin of sheep 
or goats prepared for use as a writing-material 
and for other purposes. The skins are first soaked 
in lime to remove the hair, and are then shaved, washed, 
dried, stretched, and ground or smoothed with fine chalk or 
lime and pumice-stone. Vellum is a fine parchment made 
from the skins of calves, kids, and still-born lambs. Other 
skins prepared in the same way are used for other pur- 
poses : as those of the he-goat and wolf for drum-heads, 
and the skin of the ass for covering battledores. A kind 
of parchment is made by the Eskimos from the entrails 
of seals, and is used for bags, blankets, clothing, etc. The 
skin of the fur-seal is sometimes dressed as parchment and 
used for making cases for holding valuable papers, etc. 
Rigte as a lorde sholde make lettres and hym lakked 
parchemyn, 
Though he couth write neuere so wel sif he had no penne. 
Piers Plowman (B), ix. 38. 
Thilke Stoyciens wenden that the soule hadde ben naked 
of itself as a myroure or a cleene parchemyn. 
Chaucer, Boethius, v. meter 4. 
Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an in- 
nocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, 
being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iv. 2. 87. 
2. The cartilaginous sheath or hull of the cof- 
fee-bean. 
