That mine own servant should Parcel the sum of my disgraces by
Addition of his envy.
Shak.
3. To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the
machine parcels yarn, wool, etc.
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.
Par"cel, a. & adv. Part or half; in part; partially. Shak. [Sometimes
hyphened with the word following.]
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.