'Parcel office' definitions:

Definition of 'Parcel office'

From: GCIDE
  • Parcel \Par"cel\, n. [F. parcelle a small part, fr. (assumed) LL. particella, dim. of L. pars. See Part, n., and cf. Particle.]
  • 1. A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part. [Archaic] "A parcel of her woe." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Two parcels of the white of an egg. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
  • The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government. --J. A. Symonds. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Law) A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group. [1913 Webster]
  • This youthful parcel Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet. [1913 Webster]
  • 'Tis like a parcel sent you by the stage. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
  • Bill of parcels. See under 6th Bill.
  • Parcel office, an office where parcels are received for keeping or forwarding and delivery.
  • Parcel post, that department of the post office concerned with the collection and transmission of parcels; also, the transmission through the parcel post deparment; as, to send a package by parcel post. See parcel post in the vocabulary.
  • Part and parcel. See under Part. [1913 Webster]