MELLOWED

mellow, mellowed

(adjective) softened through age or experience; “mellow wisdom”; “the peace of mellow age”

mellow, mellowed

(adjective) having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging; “a mellow port”; “mellowed fruit”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

mellowed

simple past tense and past participle of mellow

Source: Wiktionary


MELLOW

Mel"low, a. [Compar. Mellower; superl. Mellowest.] Etym: [OE. melwe; cf. AS. mearu soft, D. murw, Prov. G. mollig soft, D. malsch, and E. meal flour.]

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." Drayton (b) Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued; soft; rich; delicate; -- said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc. "The mellow horn." Wordsworth. "The mellow-tasted Burgundy." Thomson. 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. Addison.

Mel"low, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mellowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mellowing.]

Definition: To make mellow. Shak. 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.

Mel"low, v. i.

Definition: To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows. "Prosperity begins to mellow." Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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