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branch of the post office having to do with the collection, transmission, and delivery of parcels. The British Inland Parcel Post was established in 1883. The present rates, dating from 1897, are 3d. for parcels not exceeding one pound and 1d. for each additional pound up to the limit of 10 pounds. A general parcel pos…

By parcels or parts. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.

The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.

A coheir, or one of two or more persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as one estate.

To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn. Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. Lev. xxiii. 14.

The state of being parched.

See Pachisi.

See Pachisi.

Scorching; burning; drying. "Summer's parching heat." Shak. -- Parch"ing*ly, adv.

The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum. But here's a parchment with the seal of Cæsar. Shak.

To convert to a parchmentlike substance, esp. by sulphuric acid.

Sparingless. [Obs.]

A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. [Written also paraclose and perclose.] Hook.

A leopard; a panther. And more pinch-spotted make them Than pard or cat o'mountain. Shak.

A leopard. [Obs.] Spenser.

Certainly; surely; truly; verily; -- originally an oath. [Written also pardee, pardieux, perdie, etc.] [Obs.] He was, parde, an old fellow of yours. Chaucer.

Spotted like a pard. Pardine lynx (Zoöl.), a species of lynx (Felis pardina) inhabiting Southern Europe. Its color is rufous, spotted with black.

A money of account in Goa, India, equivalent to about 2s. 6d. sterling. or 60 cts.

The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution. Pardon, my lord, for me and for my tidings. Shak. But infinite in pardon was my judge. Milton. Used in expressing courteous denial or contradiction; as, I crave your pardon; or in indicatin…