Mellow
Mellow , adjective
[Old English melwe; compare Anglo-Saxon mearu soft, Dutch murw, Prov. German mollig soft, Dutch malsch, and English meal flour.]
1.
Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple.
2.
(a) Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid; as, a mellow soil.
(b)
Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued; soft; rich; delicate; -- said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc.
Mellow glebe.
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. — Addison
Mellow , transitive verb
To make mellow. — Shakespeare
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 , intransitive verb
To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows.
Prosperity begins to mellow.