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Parcel   /pˈɑrsəl/   Listen
Parcel

noun
1.
A wrapped container.  Synonym: package.
2.
The allotment of some amount by dividing something.  Synonyms: portion, share.
3.
An extended area of land.  Synonyms: parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract.
4.
A collection of things wrapped or boxed together.  Synonyms: bundle, package, packet.
verb
(past & past part. parceled or parcelled; pres. part. parceling or parcelling)
1.
Divide into parts.
2.
Cover with strips of canvas.
3.
Make into a wrapped container.



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"Parcel" Quotes from Famous Books



... only to be reminded that it is the habit of the sportive gentleman of easy life, bewildered as he would otherwise be by the tricks, twists, and windings of the hunted sex, to parcel out fair women into classes; and some are flyers and some are runners; these birds are wild on the wing, those exposed their bosoms to the shot. For him there is no individual woman. He grants her a characteristic only to enroll her in a class. ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... own benefit at the theatre." One of the dons writes of the performance as follows: "This is an innovation; but every one paid his five shillings to try how a little fiddling would sit upon him. And, notwithstanding the barbarous and inhuman combination of such a parcel of unconscionable scamps, he [Handel] disposed of the ...
— The Great German Composers • George T. Ferris

... face? You can't. It hasn't got a face. You look at the strong body of a trunk: you look above you into the matted body-hair of twigs and boughs: you see the soft green tips. But there are no eyes to look into, you can't meet its gaze. You keep on looking at it in part and parcel. ...
— Fantasia of the Unconscious • D. H. Lawrence

... hunger assailed Fido, which was not strange, for it was long past the hour when the old man usually took a bulky parcel out of his desk, spread a newspaper upon the floor, and bade Fido eat of cold potatoes, meat, and bread. There was, nearly always, a nice, juicy bone to beguile the tedium of the afternoon. Fido and the old man seldom went home to supper before ...
— Flower of the Dusk • Myrtle Reed

... be touch'd, as you may see more plainly a little further, where he says in Loves Labour Lost, the Curate plays the fool egregiously; and so does the Poet too: there he clenches the Nail, there he gives Shakespear a bold stroke, there obstinacy and malice appear in true colours: And yet if a parcel of the ones Plays, were set up by way of Auction against t'others Sermons and Essays; nay, tho the Loyal and Politick Desertion discussd was thrown in to boot, I know not what the Grave would do, but I am sure the ...
— Essays on the Stage • Thomas D'Urfey and Bossuet


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