KJV Dictionary - parcel
Bible software
For a complete Bible study software package with over one million cross-references combined, try SwordSearcher: designed for believing Bible study. SwordSearcher has tens of thousands of topical and encyclopedic entries all linked to scripture, fully searchable and indexed by both topic and verse reference. Includes Webster's 1828 Dictionary, commentaries, Bible dictionaries, books, and more.
Try Daily Bible and Prayer to keep track of your prayer list, do a daily devotional from C. H. Spurgeon's Faith Checkbook, and make Bible reading plans.
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.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
Previous word: paradise.
Next word: parched.