Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PAR'CEL, v.t.

1. To divide into parts or portions; as, to parcel an estate among heirs. These ghastly kings would parcel out my power. – Dryden.
2. To make up into a mass. [Little used.] – Shak. To parcel a seam, in seamen's language, to lay canvas over it and daub it with pitch. – Mar. Dict.