Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PAR'CEL, n. [Fr. parcelle, contracted probably from L. particula, particle, from pars, part.]

1. A part; a portion of any thing taken separately. The same experiments succeed on two parcels of the white of an egg. – Arbuthnot.
2. A quantity; any mass. – Newton.
3. A part belonging to a whole; as in law, one piece of ground is part and parcel of a greater piece.
4. A small bundle or package of goods.
5. A number of persons; in contempt. – Shak.
6. A number or quantity; in contempt; as, a parcel of fair words. – L'Estrange.