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Mellowed   /mˈɛloʊd/   Listen
Mellowed

adjective
1.
Having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging.  Synonym: mellow.  "Mellowed fruit"
2.
Having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience.  Synonym: mellow.  "The peace of mellow age"


Mellow

verb
(past & past part. mellowed; pres. part. mellowing)
1.
Soften, make mellow.
2.
Become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial.  Synonyms: mellow out, melt.
3.
Make or grow (more) mellow.  "The sun mellowed the fruit"



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"Mellowed" Quotes from Famous Books



... like all good things, takes time to mature, and will not bear forcing in any way. At first the instrument is somewhat muffled, as the pores of the wood have become impregnated with oil. This makes the instrument heavy both in weight and sound; but as time rolls on the oil dries, leaving the wood mellowed and wrapped in an elastic covering which yields to the tone of the instrument and imparts to it much of its own softness. We will now turn to spirit varnish. When this is used a diametrically opposite effect is produced. The Violin is, as it were, wrapped in glass, through which ...
— The Violin - Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators • George Hart
... DELL Where toil and health, with mellowed love shall dwell, Far from folly, far from men, In the rude romantic glen, Up the cliff, and through the glade, Wand'ring with the dear-loved maid, I shall listen to the lay, And ...
— Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey • Joseph Cottle
... for very joy, Its silver treble echoing Like a sweet anthem through the woods, Till mellowed by the solitudes ...
— Hesperus - and Other Poems and Lyrics • Charles Sangster
... the night Of cloudless climes, and starry skies: And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which ...
— English Songs and Ballads • Various
... are good in design and arrangement will stand this without loss of distinction, but those in which everything has been sacrificed to this striking lifelike quality will suffer considerably. This particular quality depends so much on the freshness of the paint that when this is mellowed and its vividness is lost, nothing will remain of value, if the quieter qualities of design and arrangement have been sacrificed ...
— The Practice and Science Of Drawing • Harold Speed


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