parcel

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Something wrapped up or packaged; a package.
• noun A plot of land, usually a division of a larger area.
• noun A quantity of merchandise offered for sale.
• noun A group or company; a pack.
• transitive verb To divide into parts and distribute.
• transitive verb To make into a parcel; package.
• transitive verb Nautical To wind protective strips of canvas around (rope).

from The Century Dictionary.

• Partly; in part; partially; to some extent.
• To divide into parts or portions: generally with out.
• To particularize; specify.
• To cover with strips of canvas; wrap with parceling.
• noun A part, either taken separately or belonging to a whole.
• noun A separable, separate, or distinct part or portion or section, as of land.
• noun A constituent or integral part: used frequently in the phrase part and parcel.
• noun A fragment; piece; bit.
• noun An item or particular; a detail.
• noun An indefinite number, quantity, or measure forming a group, mass, or lot: as, a parcel of fools; a parcel of rubbish.
• noun A number of things wrapped or otherwise put up together; a package, containing a number of articles or a single one; a small bundle.
• noun plural In law, that part of a deed or conveyance which describes the property conveyed, together with the boundaries thereof, in order to its easy identification.
• noun Same as parceling, 1.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Archaic A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
• noun (Law) A part; a portion; a piece.
• noun An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
• noun A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet.
• noun See under 6th Bill.
• noun an office where parcels are received for keeping or forwarding and delivery.
• noun that department of the post office concerned with the collection and transmission of parcels; also, the transmission through the parcel post deparment. See parcel post in the vocabulary.
• noun See under Part.
• Sometimes hyphened with the word following., Sometimes hyphened with the word following. Part or half; in part; partially.
• [Obs.] a half poet; a poor poet.
• transitive verb To divide and distribute by parts or portions; -- often with out or into.
• transitive verb rare To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
• transitive verb To make up into a parcel
• transitive verb (Naut.) to wind strips of tarred canvas tightly arround it.
• transitive verb (Naut.) to cover it with a strip of tarred canvas.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A package wrapped for shipment.
• noun An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
• noun A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
• noun obsolete A group of birds.
• noun A group of people.
• noun A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
• verb To wrap something up into the form of a package.
• verb To wrap a strip around the end of a rope.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun an extended area of land
• verb cover with strips of canvas
• noun the allotment of some amount by dividing something
• noun a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
• noun a wrapped container
• verb make into a wrapped container
• verb divide into parts