Two parcels of the white of an egg. Arbuthnot.

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

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

'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.

These ghostly kings would parcel out my power. Dryden.

The broad woodland parceled into farms. Tennyson.

That mine own servant should
Parcel the sum of my disgraces by
Addition of his envy. Shak.

To parcel a rope (Naut.), to wind strips of tarred canvas tightly arround it. Totten. -- To parcel a seam (Naut.), to cover it with a strip of tarred canvas.

The worthy dame was parcel-blind. Sir W. Scott.

One that . . . was parcel-bearded [partially bearded]. Tennyson.

Parcel poet, a half poet; a poor poet. [Obs.] B. Jonson.