a small amount; a small party; a company or collection of persons, animals, or things; articles for sale, See also bundle.
Examples: parcel of bachelors; of blockheads; of blood; of books; of brutes; of cocoa; of crows; of fair dames; of diamonds; of wry faces; of fire; of hay; of hens and chickens; of horses; of ideas; of land; of lies; of linnets; of liquor; of mathematicians; of matter; of money; of observations; of penguins (when walking together); of people; of riff-raff; of sheep; of soldiers; of sugar; of tobacco; of weather; of woes.