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Entry 6 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Mellow

/mĕl'-ō/ · Mel·low · IPA /ˈmɛloʊ/
01 a. Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple.
  1. 1.
    Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple.
  2. 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. 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. 4.
    Warmed by liquor; slightly intoxicated.
02 v. t. To make mellow.
imp. & p. p. Mellowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mellowing
  1. 1.
    To make mellow.
    “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.
03 v. i. To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows.
  1. 1.
    To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows.