Par"break` (?), v. i. & t. [Par + break.] To throw out; to vomit.
[Obs.] Skelton.
Par"break`, n. Vomit. [Obs.] Spenser.
Par"buc`kle (?), n. (a) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a
cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast
aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the
loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out. (b) A
double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.
Par"buc`kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Parbuckled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Parbuckling (?).] To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle. Totten.
Par"cÊ (?), n. pl. [L.] The Fates. See Fate, 4.
Par*case" (?), adv. [Par + case.] Perchance; by chance. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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.
Par"cel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Parceled (?) or Parcelled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Parceling or Parcelling.]
1. To divide and distribute by parts or portions; -- often with out or
into. "Their woes are parceled, mine are general." Shak.
These ghostly kings would parcel out my power.
Dryden.
The broad woodland parceled into farms.
Tennyson.