Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Parcel \Par"cel\, n. [F. parcelle a small part, fr. (assumed)
   LL. particella, dim. of L. pars. See {Part}, n., and cf.
   {Particle}.]
   1. A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a
      whole; a part. [Archaic] ``A parcel of her woe.''
      --Chaucer.

            Two parcels of the white of an egg.   --Arbuthnot.

            The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of
            self-government.                      --J. A.
                                                  Symonds.

   2. (Law) A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of
      land is part and parcel of another piece.

   3. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or
      quantity; a collection; a group.

            This youthful parcel Of noble bachelors stand at my
            disposing.                            --Shak.

   4. A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle;
      a package; a packet.

            'Tis like a parcel sent you by the stage. --Cowper.

   {Bill of parcels}. See under 6th {Bill}.

   {Parcel office}, an office where parcels are received for
      keeping or forwarding and delivery.

   {Parcel post}, that department of the post office concerned
      with the collection and transmission of parcels.

   {Part and parcel}. See under {Part}.