(a) A part or portion of something; ~ ne part of, not the slightest part of (sth.); (b) an integral part or member of something; something essential to, contained in, or belonging to a greater whole; part and ~ of, ~ and proprete, an inseparable part of (sth.); (c) a plot of land; ~ of lond (ground); (d) a section or portion of a book or written document; a division of a general topic; (e) an allotted portion; parceles even, equal shares; in parceles of distribucioun, in separate portions or allotments; (f) an amount or quantity; also, an amount of money; a gret ~, a large amount, a great deal; (g) a small amount, a bit; also, a small sum of money; (h) a small segment of organic tissue; a globule of a liquid; (i) bi parcel(es, in parceles, in separate parts, pieces, or groups; piecemeal; in ~, in part, partly; in parceles departable, separately distinguishable; not..in ~ other (nor) in al, neither in part or (nor) wholly; in al or in ~; of ~, incidentally.

(a) A bundle of cloths, bunch of onions, measure of wheat; (b) a group of people; (c) a quantity of goods in a package; (d) math. the pair of terms in a mathematical ratio.

A role; coll. parts in a play [quot.: Castle Persev.]; also fig.

(a) Coll. & pl. Particular items in a list of objects, expenditures, payments received, etc.; listed items in a financial record; also, the itemized list; bille of parceles, a statement of payments; bok of parceles, an itemized account of commercial transactions; etc.; (b) pl. the particulars, the details.