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KJV Dictionary / P / parcel

KJV Dictionary Definition: parcel

parcel

P`ARCEL, n. L. particula, particle, from pars, part.

1. A part; a portion of any thing taken separately.

The same experiments succeed on two parcels of the white of an egg.

2. A quantity; any mass.

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

4. A small bundle or package of goods.

5. A number of persons; on contempt.

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

P`ARCEL, v.t. To divide into parts or portions; as, to parcel an estate among heirs.

These ghostly kings would parcel out my power.

1. To make up into a mass. Little used.

To parcel a seam, in seamen's language, to lay canvas over it and daub it with pitch.

parceled

P`ARCELED, pp. Divided into portions.

parceling

P`ARCELING, ppr. Dividing into portions.

P`ARCELING, n. Among seamen, long narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and bound about a rope like a bandage, before it is sewed. It is used also to raise a mouse on the stays, &c.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
Previous word: paramour. Next word: parch.
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