Mellow /(?)/

1. Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple.
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.

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.

imp. & p. p. Mellowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mellowing

1. To make mellow.

   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.

1. To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows.