Available Definitions:
1) n. - The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.
2) n. - Long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used, also, in mousing on the stayes, etc.
3) n. - An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
4) n. - A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet.
5) v. t. - To divide and distribute by parts or portions; -- often with out or into.
6) v. t. - To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
7) v. t. - To make up into a parcel; as, to parcel a customer's purchases; the machine parcels yarn, wool, etc.
8) a. & adv. - Part or half; in part; partially. Shak. [Sometimes hyphened with the word following.]