(dated) An account given by the seller to the buyer of several items, with the price of each.

plural of air parcel

plural of part and parcel

(games) A children's game in which a parcel having many layers of packaging is passed from person to person around a ring while music plays, the person holding the parcel when the music is temporarily stopped being allowed to remove a single layer, and the person removing the innermost layer winning the prize contained within; in a variation of the game, there is a prize under each layer that is awarded to the person removing that layer.

plural of parcel bomb

An integral or essential piece; that which must be done or accepted as part of something else.

(physics, meteorology) An imaginary body of air to which may be assigned any or all of the basic dynamic and thermodynamic properties of atmospheric air. A parcel is large enough to contain a very great number of molecules, but small enough so that the properties assigned to it are approximately uniform within it and so that its motions with respect to the surrounding atmosphere do not induce marked compensatory movements. It cannot be given precise numerical definition, but a cubic foot of air might fit well into most contexts where air parcels are discussed, particularly those related to static stability.

(idiomatic) To divide into portions or chunks; to ration.

A bomb, disguised as a parcel, set to explode when unwrapped.

(obsolete) A bad poet; a poetaster.