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Mellow   /mˈɛloʊ/   Listen
adjective
Mellow  adj.  (compar. mellower; superl. mellowest)  
1.
Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple.
2.
Hence:
(a)
Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid; as, a mellow soil. "Mellow glebe."
(b)
Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued; soft; rich; delicate; said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc. "The mellow horn." "The mellow-tasted Burgundy." "The tender flush whose mellow stain imbues Heaven with all freaks of light."
3.
Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial. "May health return to mellow age." "As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound."
4.
Warmed by liquor; slightly intoxicated.



verb
Mellow  v. t.  (past & past part. mellowed; pres. part. mellowing)  To make mellow. "If the Weather prove frosty to mellow it (the ground), they do not plow it again till April." "The fervor of early feeling is tempered and mellowed by the ripeness of age."



Mellow  v. i.  To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows. "Prosperity begins to mellow."






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"Mellow" Quotes from Famous Books



... china, and very extravagant in Gypsy, of course, but she thought the occasion deserved it—were all laid in their places upon the table. The tea was steeped to precisely the right point; the rich, mellow flavor had just escaped the clover taste on one side, and the bitterness of too much boiling on the other; the delicately sugared apples were floating in their amber juices in the round glass preserve-dish, the smoked halibut was done to the most delightful ...
— Gypsy's Cousin Joy • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

... also through a round hole about six feet from the ground, marking the spot at which a limb had been amputated in the tree's prime. The decayed wood of cinnamon-brown, forming the inner surface of the tree, and the warm evening glow, reflected in at the top, suffused the cavity with a faint mellow radiance. ...
— The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid • Thomas Hardy

... staggered through the convent gate. Here, at least, in one of those modest retreats, which generations ago slipped into the remoter valleys of young Kentucky for their voluntary exile, she would find help! Many an afternoon when the world was blithe she had been wont to stop and listen to the mellow peal of its bell floating across her mountains on an easterly evening breeze, and in all of this torturing night of wandering she imagined it was calling. The good sisters gathered her in as though she were that more treasured lamb than the ninety and nine, nor would they hearken ...
— Sunlight Patch • Credo Fitch Harris

... with the ringing bugle, And the deep drum's mellow roar; Till the soul is faint with longing For the ...
— War Poetry of the South • Various

... jurisdiction in that county, to keep down the disaffected. As he was closing a most turgid oration by declaring "that the said magistracy ought to receive some signal mark of the Lord Lieutenant's favour,"—John Egan, who was rather mellow, and sitting behind him, jocularly whispered, "and be whipped at the cart's tail."— "And be whipped at the cart's tail!" repeated Sir Frederick unconsciously, amidst ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 14, - Issue 386, August 22, 1829 • Various


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