Mellow

Definition of Mellow

Mel´low

a.	1.
	1.	Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple.
	2.	Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid; as, a mellow soil. The tender flush whose mellow stain imbues Heaven with all freaks of light. - Percival.
	3.	Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial. May health return to mellow age. - Wordsworth. As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound. - W. Irving.
	4.	Warmed by liquor; slightly intoxicated.
v. t.	1.	To make mellow. [imp. & p. p. Mellowed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Mellowing.] If the Weather prove frosty to mellow it [the ground], they do not plow it again till April. - Mortimer. The fervor of early feeling is tempered and mellowed by the ripeness of age. - J. C. Shairp.
v. i.	1.	To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows.

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