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n. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, or vessel. See Packet, n.

 - Packet day, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day.

 - Packet note or post. See under Paper.

 - vb. To make up into a packet or bundle. To send in a packet or ...