MEL'LOW, a. [L. mollis, malus.] 1. Soft with ripeness; easily yielding to pressure; as a mellow peach or apple; mellow fruit.2. Soft to the ear; as a mellow sound; a mellow pipe.3. Soft; well pulverized; not indurated or compact; as mellow ground or earth.4. Soft and smooth to the taste; as mellow wine.5. Soft with liquor; intoxicated; merry.6. Soft or easy to the eye. The tender flush whose mellow stain imbues Heaven with all freaks of light.MEL'LOW, v.t. To ripen; to bring to maturity; to soften by ripeness or age. On foreign mountains may the sun refine The grape's soft juice and mellow it to wine.1. To soften; to pulverize. Earth is mellowed by frost.2. To mature; to bring to perfection. This episode--mellowed into that reputation which time has given it.MEL'LOW, v.i. To become soft; to be ripened, matured or brought to perfection. Fruit, when taken from the tree, soon mellows. Wine mellows with age.
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