Mellow \Mel"low\, v. i. To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows. ``Prosperity begins to mellow.'' --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Mellow \Mel"low\, a. [Compar. Mellower; superl. Mellowest.]

[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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)