(obsolete) Part or half; in part; partially.

Material, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing. / A document made on such material. / A diploma (traditionally written on parchment).

(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.

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

Dry. / Very thirsty.

simple past tense and past participle of parch

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

(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.

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

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of parch