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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



... fastened. By coming thus in arms against her Gian Maria sought to win her for his wife; yet all that he had accomplished was to place her in the arms of the one man whom she had learnt to love by virtue of this very siege. The mellow warmth of the night, the ambient perfume of the fields were well-sorted to her mood, and the faint breeze that breathed caressingly upon her cheek seemed to re-echo the melodies her heart was giving forth. In that hour those old grey walls of Roccaleone seemed to enclose for her a very paradise, ...
— Love-at-Arms • Raphael Sabatini

... down into the valley. There fell between them the old sweet silence that comes when hearts are too filled with happiness to find expression in words. From the Mission de la Madre Dolorosa there floated up to them the mellow music of the Angelus; the hills far to the west were still alight on their crests, although the shadows were long in the valley, and Don Mike, gazing down on his kingdom regained, felt his heart ...
— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne

... A mellow voice Fitz-Eustace had, The air he chose was wild and sad; Such have I heard, in Scottish land, Rise from the busy harvest band, When falls before the mountaineer, On Lowland plains, the ripened ear. Now one shrill voice the notes prolong, Now a wild chorus swells the song: ...
— Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field • Walter Scott

... the fountain, the roll of the tide, Recall your sweet image again to my side— Your low mellow voice, like the tones of a flute; Your slight yielding form, and small fairy foot; Your neck like the marble, dark flowing your hair, And brow like the ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... white-whiskered butler, who took our cards and ushered us into the library. My heart beat a trifle fast as I took inventory of the room; for I never before had called on a man who was believed to have refused the poet-laureateship. A dimly lighted room was this library—walls painted brown, running up to mellow yellow at the ceiling, high bookshelves, with a stepladder, and only five pictures on the walls, and of these three were etchings, and two water-colors of a very simple sort; leather-covered chairs; a long table in the center, on which were ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 1 of 14 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great • Elbert Hubbard


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