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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
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.]
[1913 Webster]
1. Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender
pulp; as, a mellow apple.
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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.
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The tender flush whose mellow stain imbues
Heaven with all freaks of light. --Percival.
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3. Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial.
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May health return to mellow age. --Wordsworth.
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As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed
a hound. --W. Irving.
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4. Warmed by liquor; slightly intoxicated. --Addison.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Mellow \Mel"low\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mellowed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Mellowing.]
To make mellow. --Shak.
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If the Weather prove frosty to mellow it [the ground],
they do not plow it again till April. --Mortimer.
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The fervor of early feeling is tempered and mellowed by
the ripeness of age. --J. C.
Shairp.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Mellow \Mel"low\, v. i.
To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows. ``Prosperity
begins to mellow.'' --Shak.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Mellow \Mel"low\, v. i.
To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows. ``Prosperity
begins to mellow.'' --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
mellow
adj 1: unhurried and relaxed; "an easygoing pace"; "a mellow
conversation" [syn: easygoing, laid-back]
2: having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging; "a
mellow port"; "mellowed fruit" [syn: mellowed]
3: having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and
experience; "mellow wisdom"; "the peace of mellow age"
[syn: mellowed]
4: having or suggesting softness and richness in quality; "a
mellow sound"; "the mellow air brought in the feel of
imminent autumn"- Thomas Hardy; "a mellowing sun" [syn: mellowing]
5: slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug
(especially marijuana) [syn: high]
adv : (obsolete) in a mellow manner [syn: mellowly]
v 1: soften, make mellow; "Age and experience mellowed him over
the years"
2: become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial; "With age, he
mellowed" [syn: melt, mellow out]
3: make or grow (more) mellow; "These apples need to mellow a
bit more"; "The sun mellowed the fruit"
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
mellow
a.
1 (lb en also figuratively of fruit#Noun fruit) soft#Adjective or
tender#Adjective by reason#Noun of ripeness; have#Verb a tender
pulp#Noun.
2 (lb en also figuratively of food or drink#Noun drink, or its
flavour#Noun flavour) matured#Adjective and smooth#Adjective, and not
acidic, harsh#Adjective, or sharp#Adjective.
3 (lb en of soil#Noun soil) Soft and easily penetrated or work#Verb;
not hard#Adjective or rigid; loamy.
4 (lb en chiefly poetic)
5 # (lb en of leaf#Noun leaves, seed#Noun seeds, plant#Noun plants,
etc.) mature#Adjective; of crop#Noun: ready#Adjective to be
harvest#Verb; ripe#Adjective.
6 # (lb en of a place#Noun place, or the climate or weather#Noun
weather) fruitful and warm#Adjective.
7 (lb en figuratively)
8 # (lb en of colour#Noun colour, sound#Noun sound, style#Noun style,
etc.) Not coarse, brash#Adjective, harsh, or rough#Adjective;
delicate#Adjective, rich#Adjective, soft, subdued#Adjective.
9 # (non-gloss definition Senses relating to a person#Noun person or
their quality#Noun qualities.)
10 ## well#Adverb-matured from age#Noun or experience#Noun; not
impetuous or impulsive; calm#Adjective, dignified#Adjective,
gentle#Adjective.
11 ##* (RQ:Kyd Spanish Tragedie page=22 passage=The cauſe vvas mine,
I might haue died for both: / My yeeres vvere '''mellow''', his but
young and greene, / My death vvere naturall, but his vvas forced.)
12 ##* {RQ:Middleton Dekker Roaring
Girle|scene=i|page=15|passage=Lets ſee: no Maiſter ''Greene-wit'' is not
yet / So '''mellow''' in yeares as he; (...)}
13 ##* (RQ:Smollett Regicide scene=iv pages=69–70 pageref=69
passage=By Day or Night, / In florid Youth, or '''mellow''' Age, ſcarce
fleets / One Hour without its Care!)
14 ##* {RQ:Wordsworth Yarrow Revisited|poem=Yarrow
Revisited|page=6|passage=O! while they minister to thee, / Each vying
with the other, / May Health return to '''mellow''' Age, / With
Strength, her venturous brother; (...)}
15 ##* (RQ:Montgomery Anne of Green Gables chapter=The Bend in the
Road page=426 passage=But crispness was no longer Marilla's
distinguishing characteristic. As Mrs. Lynde told her Thomas that night.
"Marilla Cuthbert has got '''''mellow'''''. That's what.")
16 ## cheerful, genial, jovial, merry; also, easygoing, laid-back,
relaxed#Adjective.
17 ##: (sense: cheerful) (synonyms en convivial gay Thesaurus:happy)
18 ##: (sense: relaxed) (synonyms en casual easy-breezy)
19 ##* {RQ:Spectator|author=Addison|issue=68|date=18 May
1711|page=417|passage=In all thy humours, whether grave or '''mellow''',
/ Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow; / Hast so much wit, and
mirth, and spleen about thee, / There is no living with thee, nor
without thee.|footer=A translation of (w: Martial)’s ''Epigrams'', book
XII, number 47.}
20 ##* (RQ:Irving Tales of a Traveller part=1 chapter=A Hunting
Dinner page=10 passage=The Baronet was when I saw him as merry and
'''mellow''' an old bachelor as ever followed a hound; and the love he
had once felt for one woman had spread itself over the whole sex; so
that there was not a pretty face in the whole country round, but came in
for a share.)
21 ##* {quote-song|en|author=Donovan Phillips Leitch|artist=(w:
Donovan)|title=(w: Mellow
Yellow)|album=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellow%20Yellow%20(album)|date=24
October 1966|passage=I'm just mad about Saffron / A-Saffron's mad about
me / I'm-a just mad about Saffron / She's just mad about me / They call
me '''mellow''' yellow (quite rightly) / They call me '''mellow'''
yellow (quite rightly) / They call me '''mellow''' yellow}
22 ## drunk#Adjective, intoxicated#Adjective; especially slightly or
pleasantly so, or to an extent that make#Verb one cheerful and friendly.
23 ##: (synonyms en mellowish Thesaurus:drunk)
24 ##* {RQ:Melville Omoo|chapter=Queen
Pomaree|page=309|passage=(...) Tanee was accosted by certain good
fellows, friends and boon companions, who condoled with him on his
misfortunes—railed against the queen, and finally dragged him away to an
illicit vender of spirits, in whose house the party got gloriously
'''mellow'''.}
25 ##* (RQ:Twain Tom Sawyer chapter=XXI page=174 passage=Now the
master, '''mellow''' almost to the verge of geniality, put his chair
aside, turned his back to his audience, and began to draw a map of
America on the blackboard, to exercise the geography class upon.)
26 ## (lb en chiefly US slang) Pleasantly high#Adjective or
stoned#Adjective, and relaxed after take#Verb drug#Noun; also, of drugs:
slightly intoxicating#Adjective and tend#Verb to produce#Verb such
effect#Noun.
27 ##: (synonyms en Thesaurus:stoned)
28 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Cecil Young|chapter=Department of
Health|title=One Canada: Creating the Greatest Country on
Earth|location=Victoria, B.C.|publisher=(w: Trafford
Publishing)|year=2004|page=266|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=7kwWE28L1PwC&pg=PA266|isbn=978-1-4120-2235-4|passage=These
boys were heavy smokers, and like my high school classmates, were always
"high", "cool" and "'''mellow'''." They
were never violent and were helpful and respectful to the adults in our
village.}
29 ##* (quote-book en author=Julie McSorley author2=Marcus McSorley
chapter=Part One: Early 1980s title=Out of the Box: The Highs and Lows
of a Champion Smuggler location=Berkeley, Calif. publisher=Roaring
Forties Press year=2014 page=30
pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=_XPoBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA30
isbn=978-1-938901-32-4 passage=Late that night, everyone was sprawled on
the sofas and bean bags in the lounge room, '''mellow''' because they'd
smoked a couple of joints of hash.)
30 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Carrie
Mesrobian|chapter=9|title=Perfectly Good White Boy|location=Minneapolis,
Minn.|publisher=Carolrhoda Lab, (w: Lerner Publishing
Group)|year=2014|page=132|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=TYtXBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA132|isbn=978-1-4677-3480-6|passage="It
better be that '''mellow''' shit, Kerry," Wendy said, biting into a
cookie. "I have to work tomorrow." / "It's '''mellow'''
shit. You've smoked this stuff before."}
31 (lb en chiefly AAVE slang) pleasing#Adjective in some way;
excellent, fantastic, great#Adjective.
n.
1 The property of being mellow#Adjective; mellowness.
2 (lb en specifically) A comfortable or relaxed#Adjective mood.
3 (lb en AAVE) ''Also'' '''main mellow''': a close#Adjective
friend#Noun or lover.
vb.
1 (lb en transitive)
2 # To cause#Verb (fruit#Noun) to become soft#Adjective or
tender#Adjective, specifically by ripening#Noun.
3 # To cause (food or drink#Noun, for example, cheese#Noun or
wine#Noun, or its flavour#Noun) to become matured#Adjective and
smooth#Adjective, and not acidic, harsh#Adjective, or sharp#Adjective.
4 # (lb en archaic except Britain regional) To soften (land#Noun or
soil#Noun) and make#Verb it suitable for planting#Noun in.
5 # (lb en figuratively)
6 ## To reduce or remove the harshness or roughness from (something);
to soften, to subdue, to tone down.
7 ##* (RQ:Nashe Christs Teares folio=16 verso=1 passage=VVas
thought-exceeding glorification, ſuch a cloyance and cumber vnto me,
that I muſt leaue it: as ''Archeſilaus'' ouer-melodied, and too-much
'''melovved''' & ſugred with ſvveet tunes, turned them aſide, and
cauſed his ears to be nevv reliſhed vvith harſh ſovver and vnſauory
ſounds?)
8 ##* (RQ:Nashe Saffron-Walden page=106 passage=The page was eaſily
'''mellowd''' with his attractive eloquence, as what heart of adamant,
or encloſed in a crocodyles ſkin (which no yron will pierce) that hath
the power to withſtand the Mercurian heavenly charme of hys rhetorique?)
9 ##* (RQ:Dryden Miscellaneous Works volume=II chapter=Kneller
page=201 passage=For time ſhall with his ready pencil ſtand; / Retouch
your figures with his ripening hand; / '''Mellow''' your colors, and
imbrown the teint; / Add every grace, which time alone can grant; / To
future ages ſhall your fame convey, / And give more beauties than he
takes away.)
10 ##* (RQ:Hume History volume=5 chapter=III page=54 passage=[B]y the
prevalence of fanaticiſm, a gloomy and ſullen diſpoſition eſtabliſhed
itſelf among the people; a ſpirit, obſtinate and dangerous; independent
and diſorderly; animated equally with a contempt of authority, and a
hatred to every other mode of religion, particularly to the catholic. In
order to '''mellow''' these humours,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20VI%20and%20I] endeavoured to
infuſe a ſmall tincture of ceremony into the national worſhip, and to
introduce ſuch rites as might, in ſome degree, occupy the mind, and
pleaſe the ſenſes, without departing too far from that ſimplicity, by
which the reformation was diſtinguiſhed.)
11 ##* {RQ:Scott Lady of the
Lake|canto=II|stanza=XVII|page=67|passage=Ever, as on they bore, more
loud / And louder rung the pibroch proud. / At first the sounds, by
distance tame, / '''Mellowed''' along the waters came, / And, lingering
long by cape and bay, / Wailed every harsher note away; (...)}
12 ##* (RQ:Maugham Of Human Bondage chapter=CVI page=557
passage=[T]ime had '''mellowed''' the marble to the colour of honey, so
that unconsciously one thought of the bees of Hymettus, and softened
their outlines.)
13 ## To cause (a person#Noun) to become calm#Adjective,
gentle#Adjective, and more understanding#Adjective, particularly from
age#Noun or experience#Noun.
14 ##: (ux en The fervour of early feeling is tempered and
'''mellowed''' by the ripeness of age.)
15 ## (lb en chiefly passive) To cause (a person) to become slightly
or pleasantly drunk#Adjective or intoxicated#Adjective.
16 ##* (RQ:Irving Astoria volume=I chapter=XIX pages=204–205
pageref=205 passage=In the course of the day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20Lisa undertook to tamper with the
faith of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Dorion%20Jr.], and,
inviting him on board of his boat, regaled him with his favorite
whiskey. When he thought him sufficiently '''mellowed''', he proposed to
him to quit the service of his new employers and return to his old
allegiance.)
17 ##* (RQ:Tennyson Maud page=109 passage=He found the bailiff riding
by the farm, / And, talking from the point, he drew him in, / And there
he '''mellow'd''' all his heart with ale, / Until they closed a bargain,
hand in hand.)
18 ## (lb en also reflexive originally US informal) ''Followed by''
'''out#Adverb''': to relax (a person); in particular, to cause (a
person) to become pleasantly high#Adjective or stoned#Adjective by
take#Verb drug#Noun.
19 (lb en intransitive)
20 # (lb en of food or drink, or its flavour) To mature#Verb and
lose#Verb its harshness or sharpness.
21 # (lb en archaic except Britain regional of soil) To be
render#Verb soft#Adjective and suitable for planting in.
22 # (lb en figuratively)
23 ## To lose harshness; to become gentler, subdued#Adjective, or
toned down#Adjective.
24 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3|act=IV|scene=iv|page=77|passage=So
now proſperitie begins to '''mellow''' / And drop into the rotten mouth
of Death: (...)}
25 ##* (RQ:Donne Works volume=VI chapter=On Himself page=560
passage=[T]ill death us lay / To ripe and '''mellow''', here we're
stubborn clay. footer=The spelling has been modernized.)
26 ##* {RQ:Herbert Travaile|edition=2nd|page=297|passage=The
Bannana's [taste] is no leſſe dainty: the tree mounts not high, but
ſpreads in a moſt gracefull poſture: the fruit is long, not unlike a
Soſſage in ſhape, in taſt moſt excellent: they ripen though you crop
them immaturely; and from a dark-greene, '''mellow''' into a flaming
yellow: (...)}
27 ##* {RQ:Byron Island|stanza=XVI|page=36|lines=360–363|passage=The
broad sun set, but not with lingering sweep, / As in the North he
'''mellows''' o'er the deep, / But fiery, full and fierce, as if he left
/ The world forever, earth of light bereft, (...)}
28 ##* (RQ:Dickens Barnaby Rudge chapter=11 page=297 passage=The very
furniture of the room seemed to '''mellow''' and deepen in its tone; the
ceiling and walls looked blacker and more highly polished, the curtains
of a ruddier red; the fire burnt clear and high, and the crickets in the
hearth-stone chirped with a more than wonted satisfaction.)
29 ## (lb en originally US informal followed by '''''out''''' of a
person) To relax; in particular, to become pleasantly high or stoned by
taking drugs.
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
Mellow
n.
(surname: en).
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
mellow
a.
1 (lb en also figuratively of fruit#Noun fruit) soft#Adjective or
tender#Adjective by reason#Noun of ripeness; have#Verb a tender
pulp#Noun.
2 (lb en also figuratively of food or drink#Noun drink, or its
flavour#Noun flavour) matured#Adjective and smooth#Adjective, and not
acidic, harsh#Adjective, or sharp#Adjective.
3 (lb en of soil#Noun soil) Soft and easily penetrated or work#Verb;
not hard#Adjective or rigid; loamy.
4 (lb en chiefly poetic)
5 # (lb en of leaf#Noun leaves, seed#Noun seeds, plant#Noun plants,
etc.) mature#Adjective; of crop#Noun: ready#Adjective to be
harvest#Verb; ripe#Adjective.
6 # (lb en of a place#Noun place, or the climate or weather#Noun
weather) fruitful and warm#Adjective.
7 (lb en figuratively)
8 # (lb en of colour#Noun colour, sound#Noun sound, style#Noun style,
etc.) Not coarse, brash#Adjective, harsh, or rough#Adjective;
delicate#Adjective, rich#Adjective, soft, subdued#Adjective.
9 # (non-gloss definition Senses relating to a person#Noun person or
their quality#Noun qualities.)
10 ## well#Adverb-matured from age#Noun or experience#Noun; not
impetuous or impulsive; calm#Adjective, dignified#Adjective,
gentle#Adjective.
11 ##* (RQ:Kyd Spanish Tragedie page=22 passage=The cauſe vvas mine,
I might haue died for both: / My yeeres vvere '''mellow''', his but
young and greene, / My death vvere naturall, but his vvas forced.)
12 ##* {RQ:Middleton Dekker Roaring
Girle|scene=i|page=15|passage=Lets ſee: no Maiſter ''Greene-wit'' is not
yet / So '''mellow''' in yeares as he; (...)}
13 ##* (RQ:Smollett Regicide scene=iv pages=69–70 pageref=69
passage=By Day or Night, / In florid Youth, or '''mellow''' Age, ſcarce
fleets / One Hour without its Care!)
14 ##* {RQ:Wordsworth Yarrow Revisited|poem=Yarrow
Revisited|page=6|passage=O! while they minister to thee, / Each vying
with the other, / May Health return to '''mellow''' Age, / With
Strength, her venturous brother; (...)}
15 ##* (RQ:Montgomery Anne of Green Gables chapter=The Bend in the
Road page=426 passage=But crispness was no longer Marilla's
distinguishing characteristic. As Mrs. Lynde told her Thomas that night.
"Marilla Cuthbert has got '''''mellow'''''. That's what.")
16 ## cheerful, genial, jovial, merry; also, easygoing, laid-back,
relaxed#Adjective.
17 ##: (sense: cheerful) (synonyms en convivial gay Thesaurus:happy)
18 ##: (sense: relaxed) (synonyms en casual easy-breezy)
19 ##* {RQ:Spectator|author=Addison|issue=68|date=18 May
1711|page=417|passage=In all thy humours, whether grave or '''mellow''',
/ Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow; / Hast so much wit, and
mirth, and spleen about thee, / There is no living with thee, nor
without thee.|footer=A translation of (w: Martial)’s ''Epigrams'', book
XII, number 47.}
20 ##* (RQ:Irving Tales of a Traveller part=1 chapter=A Hunting
Dinner page=10 passage=The Baronet was when I saw him as merry and
'''mellow''' an old bachelor as ever followed a hound; and the love he
had once felt for one woman had spread itself over the whole sex; so
that there was not a pretty face in the whole country round, but came in
for a share.)
21 ##* {quote-song|en|author=Donovan Phillips Leitch|artist=(w:
Donovan)|title=(w: Mellow
Yellow)|album=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellow%20Yellow%20(album)|date=24
October 1966|passage=I'm just mad about Saffron / A-Saffron's mad about
me / I'm-a just mad about Saffron / She's just mad about me / They call
me '''mellow''' yellow (quite rightly) / They call me '''mellow'''
yellow (quite rightly) / They call me '''mellow''' yellow}
22 ## drunk#Adjective, intoxicated#Adjective; especially slightly or
pleasantly so, or to an extent that make#Verb one cheerful and friendly.
23 ##: (synonyms en mellowish Thesaurus:drunk)
24 ##* {RQ:Melville Omoo|chapter=Queen
Pomaree|page=309|passage=(...) Tanee was accosted by certain good
fellows, friends and boon companions, who condoled with him on his
misfortunes—railed against the queen, and finally dragged him away to an
illicit vender of spirits, in whose house the party got gloriously
'''mellow'''.}
25 ##* (RQ:Twain Tom Sawyer chapter=XXI page=174 passage=Now the
master, '''mellow''' almost to the verge of geniality, put his chair
aside, turned his back to his audience, and began to draw a map of
America on the blackboard, to exercise the geography class upon.)
26 ## (lb en chiefly US slang) Pleasantly high#Adjective or
stoned#Adjective, and relaxed after take#Verb drug#Noun; also, of drugs:
slightly intoxicating#Adjective and tend#Verb to produce#Verb such
effect#Noun.
27 ##: (synonyms en Thesaurus:stoned)
28 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Cecil Young|chapter=Department of
Health|title=One Canada: Creating the Greatest Country on
Earth|location=Victoria, B.C.|publisher=(w: Trafford
Publishing)|year=2004|page=266|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=7kwWE28L1PwC&pg=PA266|isbn=978-1-4120-2235-4|passage=These
boys were heavy smokers, and like my high school classmates, were always
"high", "cool" and "'''mellow'''." They
were never violent and were helpful and respectful to the adults in our
village.}
29 ##* (quote-book en author=Julie McSorley author2=Marcus McSorley
chapter=Part One: Early 1980s title=Out of the Box: The Highs and Lows
of a Champion Smuggler location=Berkeley, Calif. publisher=Roaring
Forties Press year=2014 page=30
pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=_XPoBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA30
isbn=978-1-938901-32-4 passage=Late that night, everyone was sprawled on
the sofas and bean bags in the lounge room, '''mellow''' because they'd
smoked a couple of joints of hash.)
30 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Carrie
Mesrobian|chapter=9|title=Perfectly Good White Boy|location=Minneapolis,
Minn.|publisher=Carolrhoda Lab, (w: Lerner Publishing
Group)|year=2014|page=132|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=TYtXBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA132|isbn=978-1-4677-3480-6|passage="It
better be that '''mellow''' shit, Kerry," Wendy said, biting into a
cookie. "I have to work tomorrow." / "It's '''mellow'''
shit. You've smoked this stuff before."}
31 (lb en chiefly AAVE slang) pleasing#Adjective in some way;
excellent, fantastic, great#Adjective.
n.
1 The property of being mellow#Adjective; mellowness.
2 (lb en specifically) A comfortable or relaxed#Adjective mood.
3 (lb en AAVE) ''Also'' '''main mellow''': a close#Adjective
friend#Noun or lover.
vb.
1 (lb en transitive)
2 # To cause#Verb (fruit#Noun) to become soft#Adjective or
tender#Adjective, specifically by ripening#Noun.
3 # To cause (food or drink#Noun, for example, cheese#Noun or
wine#Noun, or its flavour#Noun) to become matured#Adjective and
smooth#Adjective, and not acidic, harsh#Adjective, or sharp#Adjective.
4 # (lb en archaic except Britain regional) To soften (land#Noun or
soil#Noun) and make#Verb it suitable for planting#Noun in.
5 # (lb en figuratively)
6 ## To reduce or remove the harshness or roughness from (something);
to soften, to subdue, to tone down.
7 ##* (RQ:Nashe Christs Teares folio=16 verso=1 passage=VVas
thought-exceeding glorification, ſuch a cloyance and cumber vnto me,
that I muſt leaue it: as ''Archeſilaus'' ouer-melodied, and too-much
'''melovved''' & ſugred with ſvveet tunes, turned them aſide, and
cauſed his ears to be nevv reliſhed vvith harſh ſovver and vnſauory
ſounds?)
8 ##* (RQ:Nashe Saffron-Walden page=106 passage=The page was eaſily
'''mellowd''' with his attractive eloquence, as what heart of adamant,
or encloſed in a crocodyles ſkin (which no yron will pierce) that hath
the power to withſtand the Mercurian heavenly charme of hys rhetorique?)
9 ##* (RQ:Dryden Miscellaneous Works volume=II chapter=Kneller
page=201 passage=For time ſhall with his ready pencil ſtand; / Retouch
your figures with his ripening hand; / '''Mellow''' your colors, and
imbrown the teint; / Add every grace, which time alone can grant; / To
future ages ſhall your fame convey, / And give more beauties than he
takes away.)
10 ##* (RQ:Hume History volume=5 chapter=III page=54 passage=[B]y the
prevalence of fanaticiſm, a gloomy and ſullen diſpoſition eſtabliſhed
itſelf among the people; a ſpirit, obſtinate and dangerous; independent
and diſorderly; animated equally with a contempt of authority, and a
hatred to every other mode of religion, particularly to the catholic. In
order to '''mellow''' these humours,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20VI%20and%20I] endeavoured to
infuſe a ſmall tincture of ceremony into the national worſhip, and to
introduce ſuch rites as might, in ſome degree, occupy the mind, and
pleaſe the ſenſes, without departing too far from that ſimplicity, by
which the reformation was diſtinguiſhed.)
11 ##* {RQ:Scott Lady of the
Lake|canto=II|stanza=XVII|page=67|passage=Ever, as on they bore, more
loud / And louder rung the pibroch proud. / At first the sounds, by
distance tame, / '''Mellowed''' along the waters came, / And, lingering
long by cape and bay, / Wailed every harsher note away; (...)}
12 ##* (RQ:Maugham Of Human Bondage chapter=CVI page=557
passage=[T]ime had '''mellowed''' the marble to the colour of honey, so
that unconsciously one thought of the bees of Hymettus, and softened
their outlines.)
13 ## To cause (a person#Noun) to become calm#Adjective,
gentle#Adjective, and more understanding#Adjective, particularly from
age#Noun or experience#Noun.
14 ##: (ux en The fervour of early feeling is tempered and
'''mellowed''' by the ripeness of age.)
15 ## (lb en chiefly passive) To cause (a person) to become slightly
or pleasantly drunk#Adjective or intoxicated#Adjective.
16 ##* (RQ:Irving Astoria volume=I chapter=XIX pages=204–205
pageref=205 passage=In the course of the day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20Lisa undertook to tamper with the
faith of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Dorion%20Jr.], and,
inviting him on board of his boat, regaled him with his favorite
whiskey. When he thought him sufficiently '''mellowed''', he proposed to
him to quit the service of his new employers and return to his old
allegiance.)
17 ##* (RQ:Tennyson Maud page=109 passage=He found the bailiff riding
by the farm, / And, talking from the point, he drew him in, / And there
he '''mellow'd''' all his heart with ale, / Until they closed a bargain,
hand in hand.)
18 ## (lb en also reflexive originally US informal) ''Followed by''
'''out#Adverb''': to relax (a person); in particular, to cause (a
person) to become pleasantly high#Adjective or stoned#Adjective by
take#Verb drug#Noun.
19 (lb en intransitive)
20 # (lb en of food or drink, or its flavour) To mature#Verb and
lose#Verb its harshness or sharpness.
21 # (lb en archaic except Britain regional of soil) To be
render#Verb soft#Adjective and suitable for planting in.
22 # (lb en figuratively)
23 ## To lose harshness; to become gentler, subdued#Adjective, or
toned down#Adjective.
24 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3|act=IV|scene=iv|page=77|passage=So
now proſperitie begins to '''mellow''' / And drop into the rotten mouth
of Death: (...)}
25 ##* (RQ:Donne Works volume=VI chapter=On Himself page=560
passage=[T]ill death us lay / To ripe and '''mellow''', here we're
stubborn clay. footer=The spelling has been modernized.)
26 ##* {RQ:Herbert Travaile|edition=2nd|page=297|passage=The
Bannana's [taste] is no leſſe dainty: the tree mounts not high, but
ſpreads in a moſt gracefull poſture: the fruit is long, not unlike a
Soſſage in ſhape, in taſt moſt excellent: they ripen though you crop
them immaturely; and from a dark-greene, '''mellow''' into a flaming
yellow: (...)}
27 ##* {RQ:Byron Island|stanza=XVI|page=36|lines=360–363|passage=The
broad sun set, but not with lingering sweep, / As in the North he
'''mellows''' o'er the deep, / But fiery, full and fierce, as if he left
/ The world forever, earth of light bereft, (...)}
28 ##* (RQ:Dickens Barnaby Rudge chapter=11 page=297 passage=The very
furniture of the room seemed to '''mellow''' and deepen in its tone; the
ceiling and walls looked blacker and more highly polished, the curtains
of a ruddier red; the fire burnt clear and high, and the crickets in the
hearth-stone chirped with a more than wonted satisfaction.)
29 ## (lb en originally US informal followed by '''''out''''' of a
person) To relax; in particular, to become pleasantly high or stoned by
taking drugs.
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
Mellow
n.
(surname: en).
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
mellow
a.
1 (lb en also figuratively of fruit#Noun fruit) soft#Adjective or
tender#Adjective by reason#Noun of ripeness; have#Verb a tender
pulp#Noun.
2 (lb en also figuratively of food or drink#Noun drink, or its
flavour#Noun flavour) matured#Adjective and smooth#Adjective, and not
acidic, harsh#Adjective, or sharp#Adjective.
3 (lb en of soil#Noun soil) Soft and easily penetrated or work#Verb;
not hard#Adjective or rigid; loamy.
4 (lb en chiefly poetic)
5 # (lb en of leaf#Noun leaves, seed#Noun seeds, plant#Noun plants,
etc.) mature#Adjective; of crop#Noun: ready#Adjective to be
harvest#Verb; ripe#Adjective.
6 # (lb en of a place#Noun place, or the climate or weather#Noun
weather) fruitful and warm#Adjective.
7 (lb en figuratively)
8 # (lb en of colour#Noun colour, sound#Noun sound, style#Noun style,
etc.) Not coarse, brash#Adjective, harsh, or rough#Adjective;
delicate#Adjective, rich#Adjective, soft, subdued#Adjective.
9 # (non-gloss definition Senses relating to a person#Noun person or
their quality#Noun qualities.)
10 ## well#Adverb-matured from age#Noun or experience#Noun; not
impetuous or impulsive; calm#Adjective, dignified#Adjective,
gentle#Adjective.
11 ##* (RQ:Kyd Spanish Tragedie page=22 passage=The cauſe vvas mine,
I might haue died for both: / My yeeres vvere '''mellow''', his but
young and greene, / My death vvere naturall, but his vvas forced.)
12 ##* {RQ:Middleton Dekker Roaring
Girle|scene=i|page=15|passage=Lets ſee: no Maiſter ''Greene-wit'' is not
yet / So '''mellow''' in yeares as he; (...)}
13 ##* (RQ:Smollett Regicide scene=iv pages=69–70 pageref=69
passage=By Day or Night, / In florid Youth, or '''mellow''' Age, ſcarce
fleets / One Hour without its Care!)
14 ##* {RQ:Wordsworth Yarrow Revisited|poem=Yarrow
Revisited|page=6|passage=O! while they minister to thee, / Each vying
with the other, / May Health return to '''mellow''' Age, / With
Strength, her venturous brother; (...)}
15 ##* (RQ:Montgomery Anne of Green Gables chapter=The Bend in the
Road page=426 passage=But crispness was no longer Marilla's
distinguishing characteristic. As Mrs. Lynde told her Thomas that night.
"Marilla Cuthbert has got '''''mellow'''''. That's what.")
16 ## cheerful, genial, jovial, merry; also, easygoing, laid-back,
relaxed#Adjective.
17 ##: (sense: cheerful) (synonyms en convivial gay Thesaurus:happy)
18 ##: (sense: relaxed) (synonyms en casual easy-breezy)
19 ##* {RQ:Spectator|author=Addison|issue=68|date=18 May
1711|page=417|passage=In all thy humours, whether grave or '''mellow''',
/ Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow; / Hast so much wit, and
mirth, and spleen about thee, / There is no living with thee, nor
without thee.|footer=A translation of (w: Martial)’s ''Epigrams'', book
XII, number 47.}
20 ##* (RQ:Irving Tales of a Traveller part=1 chapter=A Hunting
Dinner page=10 passage=The Baronet was when I saw him as merry and
'''mellow''' an old bachelor as ever followed a hound; and the love he
had once felt for one woman had spread itself over the whole sex; so
that there was not a pretty face in the whole country round, but came in
for a share.)
21 ##* {quote-song|en|author=Donovan Phillips Leitch|artist=(w:
Donovan)|title=(w: Mellow
Yellow)|album=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellow%20Yellow%20(album)|date=24
October 1966|passage=I'm just mad about Saffron / A-Saffron's mad about
me / I'm-a just mad about Saffron / She's just mad about me / They call
me '''mellow''' yellow (quite rightly) / They call me '''mellow'''
yellow (quite rightly) / They call me '''mellow''' yellow}
22 ## drunk#Adjective, intoxicated#Adjective; especially slightly or
pleasantly so, or to an extent that make#Verb one cheerful and friendly.
23 ##: (synonyms en mellowish Thesaurus:drunk)
24 ##* {RQ:Melville Omoo|chapter=Queen
Pomaree|page=309|passage=(...) Tanee was accosted by certain good
fellows, friends and boon companions, who condoled with him on his
misfortunes—railed against the queen, and finally dragged him away to an
illicit vender of spirits, in whose house the party got gloriously
'''mellow'''.}
25 ##* (RQ:Twain Tom Sawyer chapter=XXI page=174 passage=Now the
master, '''mellow''' almost to the verge of geniality, put his chair
aside, turned his back to his audience, and began to draw a map of
America on the blackboard, to exercise the geography class upon.)
26 ## (lb en chiefly US slang) Pleasantly high#Adjective or
stoned#Adjective, and relaxed after take#Verb drug#Noun; also, of drugs:
slightly intoxicating#Adjective and tend#Verb to produce#Verb such
effect#Noun.
27 ##: (synonyms en Thesaurus:stoned)
28 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Cecil Young|chapter=Department of
Health|title=One Canada: Creating the Greatest Country on
Earth|location=Victoria, B.C.|publisher=(w: Trafford
Publishing)|year=2004|page=266|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=7kwWE28L1PwC&pg=PA266|isbn=978-1-4120-2235-4|passage=These
boys were heavy smokers, and like my high school classmates, were always
"high", "cool" and "'''mellow'''." They
were never violent and were helpful and respectful to the adults in our
village.}
29 ##* (quote-book en author=Julie McSorley author2=Marcus McSorley
chapter=Part One: Early 1980s title=Out of the Box: The Highs and Lows
of a Champion Smuggler location=Berkeley, Calif. publisher=Roaring
Forties Press year=2014 page=30
pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=_XPoBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA30
isbn=978-1-938901-32-4 passage=Late that night, everyone was sprawled on
the sofas and bean bags in the lounge room, '''mellow''' because they'd
smoked a couple of joints of hash.)
30 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Carrie
Mesrobian|chapter=9|title=Perfectly Good White Boy|location=Minneapolis,
Minn.|publisher=Carolrhoda Lab, (w: Lerner Publishing
Group)|year=2014|page=132|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=TYtXBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA132|isbn=978-1-4677-3480-6|passage="It
better be that '''mellow''' shit, Kerry," Wendy said, biting into a
cookie. "I have to work tomorrow." / "It's '''mellow'''
shit. You've smoked this stuff before."}
31 (lb en chiefly AAVE slang) pleasing#Adjective in some way;
excellent, fantastic, great#Adjective.
n.
1 The property of being mellow#Adjective; mellowness.
2 (lb en specifically) A comfortable or relaxed#Adjective mood.
3 (lb en AAVE) ''Also'' '''main mellow''': a close#Adjective
friend#Noun or lover.
vb.
1 (lb en transitive)
2 # To cause#Verb (fruit#Noun) to become soft#Adjective or
tender#Adjective, specifically by ripening#Noun.
3 # To cause (food or drink#Noun, for example, cheese#Noun or
wine#Noun, or its flavour#Noun) to become matured#Adjective and
smooth#Adjective, and not acidic, harsh#Adjective, or sharp#Adjective.
4 # (lb en archaic except Britain regional) To soften (land#Noun or
soil#Noun) and make#Verb it suitable for planting#Noun in.
5 # (lb en figuratively)
6 ## To reduce or remove the harshness or roughness from (something);
to soften, to subdue, to tone down.
7 ##* (RQ:Nashe Christs Teares folio=16 verso=1 passage=VVas
thought-exceeding glorification, ſuch a cloyance and cumber vnto me,
that I muſt leaue it: as ''Archeſilaus'' ouer-melodied, and too-much
'''melovved''' & ſugred with ſvveet tunes, turned them aſide, and
cauſed his ears to be nevv reliſhed vvith harſh ſovver and vnſauory
ſounds?)
8 ##* (RQ:Nashe Saffron-Walden page=106 passage=The page was eaſily
'''mellowd''' with his attractive eloquence, as what heart of adamant,
or encloſed in a crocodyles ſkin (which no yron will pierce) that hath
the power to withſtand the Mercurian heavenly charme of hys rhetorique?)
9 ##* (RQ:Dryden Miscellaneous Works volume=II chapter=Kneller
page=201 passage=For time ſhall with his ready pencil ſtand; / Retouch
your figures with his ripening hand; / '''Mellow''' your colors, and
imbrown the teint; / Add every grace, which time alone can grant; / To
future ages ſhall your fame convey, / And give more beauties than he
takes away.)
10 ##* (RQ:Hume History volume=5 chapter=III page=54 passage=[B]y the
prevalence of fanaticiſm, a gloomy and ſullen diſpoſition eſtabliſhed
itſelf among the people; a ſpirit, obſtinate and dangerous; independent
and diſorderly; animated equally with a contempt of authority, and a
hatred to every other mode of religion, particularly to the catholic. In
order to '''mellow''' these humours,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20VI%20and%20I] endeavoured to
infuſe a ſmall tincture of ceremony into the national worſhip, and to
introduce ſuch rites as might, in ſome degree, occupy the mind, and
pleaſe the ſenſes, without departing too far from that ſimplicity, by
which the reformation was diſtinguiſhed.)
11 ##* {RQ:Scott Lady of the
Lake|canto=II|stanza=XVII|page=67|passage=Ever, as on they bore, more
loud / And louder rung the pibroch proud. / At first the sounds, by
distance tame, / '''Mellowed''' along the waters came, / And, lingering
long by cape and bay, / Wailed every harsher note away; (...)}
12 ##* (RQ:Maugham Of Human Bondage chapter=CVI page=557
passage=[T]ime had '''mellowed''' the marble to the colour of honey, so
that unconsciously one thought of the bees of Hymettus, and softened
their outlines.)
13 ## To cause (a person#Noun) to become calm#Adjective,
gentle#Adjective, and more understanding#Adjective, particularly from
age#Noun or experience#Noun.
14 ##: (ux en The fervour of early feeling is tempered and
'''mellowed''' by the ripeness of age.)
15 ## (lb en chiefly passive) To cause (a person) to become slightly
or pleasantly drunk#Adjective or intoxicated#Adjective.
16 ##* (RQ:Irving Astoria volume=I chapter=XIX pages=204–205
pageref=205 passage=In the course of the day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20Lisa undertook to tamper with the
faith of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Dorion%20Jr.], and,
inviting him on board of his boat, regaled him with his favorite
whiskey. When he thought him sufficiently '''mellowed''', he proposed to
him to quit the service of his new employers and return to his old
allegiance.)
17 ##* (RQ:Tennyson Maud page=109 passage=He found the bailiff riding
by the farm, / And, talking from the point, he drew him in, / And there
he '''mellow'd''' all his heart with ale, / Until they closed a bargain,
hand in hand.)
18 ## (lb en also reflexive originally US informal) ''Followed by''
'''out#Adverb''': to relax (a person); in particular, to cause (a
person) to become pleasantly high#Adjective or stoned#Adjective by
take#Verb drug#Noun.
19 (lb en intransitive)
20 # (lb en of food or drink, or its flavour) To mature#Verb and
lose#Verb its harshness or sharpness.
21 # (lb en archaic except Britain regional of soil) To be
render#Verb soft#Adjective and suitable for planting in.
22 # (lb en figuratively)
23 ## To lose harshness; to become gentler, subdued#Adjective, or
toned down#Adjective.
24 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3|act=IV|scene=iv|page=77|passage=So
now proſperitie begins to '''mellow''' / And drop into the rotten mouth
of Death: (...)}
25 ##* (RQ:Donne Works volume=VI chapter=On Himself page=560
passage=[T]ill death us lay / To ripe and '''mellow''', here we're
stubborn clay. footer=The spelling has been modernized.)
26 ##* {RQ:Herbert Travaile|edition=2nd|page=297|passage=The
Bannana's [taste] is no leſſe dainty: the tree mounts not high, but
ſpreads in a moſt gracefull poſture: the fruit is long, not unlike a
Soſſage in ſhape, in taſt moſt excellent: they ripen though you crop
them immaturely; and from a dark-greene, '''mellow''' into a flaming
yellow: (...)}
27 ##* {RQ:Byron Island|stanza=XVI|page=36|lines=360–363|passage=The
broad sun set, but not with lingering sweep, / As in the North he
'''mellows''' o'er the deep, / But fiery, full and fierce, as if he left
/ The world forever, earth of light bereft, (...)}
28 ##* (RQ:Dickens Barnaby Rudge chapter=11 page=297 passage=The very
furniture of the room seemed to '''mellow''' and deepen in its tone; the
ceiling and walls looked blacker and more highly polished, the curtains
of a ruddier red; the fire burnt clear and high, and the crickets in the
hearth-stone chirped with a more than wonted satisfaction.)
29 ## (lb en originally US informal followed by '''''out''''' of a
person) To relax; in particular, to become pleasantly high or stoned by
taking drugs.
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
Mellow
n.
(surname: en).
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
mellow
a.
1 (lb en also figuratively of fruit#Noun fruit) soft#Adjective or
tender#Adjective by reason#Noun of ripeness; have#Verb a tender
pulp#Noun.
2 (lb en also figuratively of food or drink#Noun drink, or its
flavour#Noun flavour) matured#Adjective and smooth#Adjective, and not
acidic, harsh#Adjective, or sharp#Adjective.
3 (lb en of soil#Noun soil) Soft and easily penetrated or work#Verb;
not hard#Adjective or rigid; loamy.
4 (lb en chiefly poetic)
5 # (lb en of leaf#Noun leaves, seed#Noun seeds, plant#Noun plants,
etc.) mature#Adjective; of crop#Noun: ready#Adjective to be
harvest#Verb; ripe#Adjective.
6 # (lb en of a place#Noun place, or the climate or weather#Noun
weather) fruitful and warm#Adjective.
7 (lb en figuratively)
8 # (lb en of colour#Noun colour, sound#Noun sound, style#Noun style,
etc.) Not coarse, brash#Adjective, harsh, or rough#Adjective;
delicate#Adjective, rich#Adjective, soft, subdued#Adjective.
9 # (non-gloss definition Senses relating to a person#Noun person or
their quality#Noun qualities.)
10 ## well#Adverb-matured from age#Noun or experience#Noun; not
impetuous or impulsive; calm#Adjective, dignified#Adjective,
gentle#Adjective.
11 ##* (RQ:Kyd Spanish Tragedie page=22 passage=The cauſe vvas mine,
I might haue died for both: / My yeeres vvere '''mellow''', his but
young and greene, / My death vvere naturall, but his vvas forced.)
12 ##* {RQ:Middleton Dekker Roaring
Girle|scene=i|page=15|passage=Lets ſee: no Maiſter ''Greene-wit'' is not
yet / So '''mellow''' in yeares as he; (...)}
13 ##* (RQ:Smollett Regicide scene=iv pages=69–70 pageref=69
passage=By Day or Night, / In florid Youth, or '''mellow''' Age, ſcarce
fleets / One Hour without its Care!)
14 ##* {RQ:Wordsworth Yarrow Revisited|poem=Yarrow
Revisited|page=6|passage=O! while they minister to thee, / Each vying
with the other, / May Health return to '''mellow''' Age, / With
Strength, her venturous brother; (...)}
15 ##* (RQ:Montgomery Anne of Green Gables chapter=The Bend in the
Road page=426 passage=But crispness was no longer Marilla's
distinguishing characteristic. As Mrs. Lynde told her Thomas that night.
"Marilla Cuthbert has got '''''mellow'''''. That's what.")
16 ## cheerful, genial, jovial, merry; also, easygoing, laid-back,
relaxed#Adjective.
17 ##: (sense: cheerful) (synonyms en convivial gay Thesaurus:happy)
18 ##: (sense: relaxed) (synonyms en casual easy-breezy)
19 ##* {RQ:Spectator|author=Addison|issue=68|date=18 May
1711|page=417|passage=In all thy humours, whether grave or '''mellow''',
/ Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow; / Hast so much wit, and
mirth, and spleen about thee, / There is no living with thee, nor
without thee.|footer=A translation of (w: Martial)’s ''Epigrams'', book
XII, number 47.}
20 ##* (RQ:Irving Tales of a Traveller part=1 chapter=A Hunting
Dinner page=10 passage=The Baronet was when I saw him as merry and
'''mellow''' an old bachelor as ever followed a hound; and the love he
had once felt for one woman had spread itself over the whole sex; so
that there was not a pretty face in the whole country round, but came in
for a share.)
21 ##* {quote-song|en|author=Donovan Phillips Leitch|artist=(w:
Donovan)|title=(w: Mellow
Yellow)|album=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellow%20Yellow%20(album)|date=24
October 1966|passage=I'm just mad about Saffron / A-Saffron's mad about
me / I'm-a just mad about Saffron / She's just mad about me / They call
me '''mellow''' yellow (quite rightly) / They call me '''mellow'''
yellow (quite rightly) / They call me '''mellow''' yellow}
22 ## drunk#Adjective, intoxicated#Adjective; especially slightly or
pleasantly so, or to an extent that make#Verb one cheerful and friendly.
23 ##: (synonyms en mellowish Thesaurus:drunk)
24 ##* {RQ:Melville Omoo|chapter=Queen
Pomaree|page=309|passage=(...) Tanee was accosted by certain good
fellows, friends and boon companions, who condoled with him on his
misfortunes—railed against the queen, and finally dragged him away to an
illicit vender of spirits, in whose house the party got gloriously
'''mellow'''.}
25 ##* (RQ:Twain Tom Sawyer chapter=XXI page=174 passage=Now the
master, '''mellow''' almost to the verge of geniality, put his chair
aside, turned his back to his audience, and began to draw a map of
America on the blackboard, to exercise the geography class upon.)
26 ## (lb en chiefly US slang) Pleasantly high#Adjective or
stoned#Adjective, and relaxed after take#Verb drug#Noun; also, of drugs:
slightly intoxicating#Adjective and tend#Verb to produce#Verb such
effect#Noun.
27 ##: (synonyms en Thesaurus:stoned)
28 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Cecil Young|chapter=Department of
Health|title=One Canada: Creating the Greatest Country on
Earth|location=Victoria, B.C.|publisher=(w: Trafford
Publishing)|year=2004|page=266|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=7kwWE28L1PwC&pg=PA266|isbn=978-1-4120-2235-4|passage=These
boys were heavy smokers, and like my high school classmates, were always
"high", "cool" and "'''mellow'''." They
were never violent and were helpful and respectful to the adults in our
village.}
29 ##* (quote-book en author=Julie McSorley author2=Marcus McSorley
chapter=Part One: Early 1980s title=Out of the Box: The Highs and Lows
of a Champion Smuggler location=Berkeley, Calif. publisher=Roaring
Forties Press year=2014 page=30
pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=_XPoBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA30
isbn=978-1-938901-32-4 passage=Late that night, everyone was sprawled on
the sofas and bean bags in the lounge room, '''mellow''' because they'd
smoked a couple of joints of hash.)
30 ##* {quote-book|en|author=Carrie
Mesrobian|chapter=9|title=Perfectly Good White Boy|location=Minneapolis,
Minn.|publisher=Carolrhoda Lab, (w: Lerner Publishing
Group)|year=2014|page=132|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=TYtXBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA132|isbn=978-1-4677-3480-6|passage="It
better be that '''mellow''' shit, Kerry," Wendy said, biting into a
cookie. "I have to work tomorrow." / "It's '''mellow'''
shit. You've smoked this stuff before."}
31 (lb en chiefly AAVE slang) pleasing#Adjective in some way;
excellent, fantastic, great#Adjective.
n.
1 The property of being mellow#Adjective; mellowness.
2 (lb en specifically) A comfortable or relaxed#Adjective mood.
3 (lb en AAVE) ''Also'' '''main mellow''': a close#Adjective
friend#Noun or lover.
vb.
1 (lb en transitive)
2 # To cause#Verb (fruit#Noun) to become soft#Adjective or
tender#Adjective, specifically by ripening#Noun.
3 # To cause (food or drink#Noun, for example, cheese#Noun or
wine#Noun, or its flavour#Noun) to become matured#Adjective and
smooth#Adjective, and not acidic, harsh#Adjective, or sharp#Adjective.
4 # (lb en archaic except Britain regional) To soften (land#Noun or
soil#Noun) and make#Verb it suitable for planting#Noun in.
5 # (lb en figuratively)
6 ## To reduce or remove the harshness or roughness from (something);
to soften, to subdue, to tone down.
7 ##* (RQ:Nashe Christs Teares folio=16 verso=1 passage=VVas
thought-exceeding glorification, ſuch a cloyance and cumber vnto me,
that I muſt leaue it: as ''Archeſilaus'' ouer-melodied, and too-much
'''melovved''' & ſugred with ſvveet tunes, turned them aſide, and
cauſed his ears to be nevv reliſhed vvith harſh ſovver and vnſauory
ſounds?)
8 ##* (RQ:Nashe Saffron-Walden page=106 passage=The page was eaſily
'''mellowd''' with his attractive eloquence, as what heart of adamant,
or encloſed in a crocodyles ſkin (which no yron will pierce) that hath
the power to withſtand the Mercurian heavenly charme of hys rhetorique?)
9 ##* (RQ:Dryden Miscellaneous Works volume=II chapter=Kneller
page=201 passage=For time ſhall with his ready pencil ſtand; / Retouch
your figures with his ripening hand; / '''Mellow''' your colors, and
imbrown the teint; / Add every grace, which time alone can grant; / To
future ages ſhall your fame convey, / And give more beauties than he
takes away.)
10 ##* (RQ:Hume History volume=5 chapter=III page=54 passage=[B]y the
prevalence of fanaticiſm, a gloomy and ſullen diſpoſition eſtabliſhed
itſelf among the people; a ſpirit, obſtinate and dangerous; independent
and diſorderly; animated equally with a contempt of authority, and a
hatred to every other mode of religion, particularly to the catholic. In
order to '''mellow''' these humours,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20VI%20and%20I] endeavoured to
infuſe a ſmall tincture of ceremony into the national worſhip, and to
introduce ſuch rites as might, in ſome degree, occupy the mind, and
pleaſe the ſenſes, without departing too far from that ſimplicity, by
which the reformation was diſtinguiſhed.)
11 ##* {RQ:Scott Lady of the
Lake|canto=II|stanza=XVII|page=67|passage=Ever, as on they bore, more
loud / And louder rung the pibroch proud. / At first the sounds, by
distance tame, / '''Mellowed''' along the waters came, / And, lingering
long by cape and bay, / Wailed every harsher note away; (...)}
12 ##* (RQ:Maugham Of Human Bondage chapter=CVI page=557
passage=[T]ime had '''mellowed''' the marble to the colour of honey, so
that unconsciously one thought of the bees of Hymettus, and softened
their outlines.)
13 ## To cause (a person#Noun) to become calm#Adjective,
gentle#Adjective, and more understanding#Adjective, particularly from
age#Noun or experience#Noun.
14 ##: (ux en The fervour of early feeling is tempered and
'''mellowed''' by the ripeness of age.)
15 ## (lb en chiefly passive) To cause (a person) to become slightly
or pleasantly drunk#Adjective or intoxicated#Adjective.
16 ##* (RQ:Irving Astoria volume=I chapter=XIX pages=204–205
pageref=205 passage=In the course of the day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20Lisa undertook to tamper with the
faith of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Dorion%20Jr.], and,
inviting him on board of his boat, regaled him with his favorite
whiskey. When he thought him sufficiently '''mellowed''', he proposed to
him to quit the service of his new employers and return to his old
allegiance.)
17 ##* (RQ:Tennyson Maud page=109 passage=He found the bailiff riding
by the farm, / And, talking from the point, he drew him in, / And there
he '''mellow'd''' all his heart with ale, / Until they closed a bargain,
hand in hand.)
18 ## (lb en also reflexive originally US informal) ''Followed by''
'''out#Adverb''': to relax (a person); in particular, to cause (a
person) to become pleasantly high#Adjective or stoned#Adjective by
take#Verb drug#Noun.
19 (lb en intransitive)
20 # (lb en of food or drink, or its flavour) To mature#Verb and
lose#Verb its harshness or sharpness.
21 # (lb en archaic except Britain regional of soil) To be
render#Verb soft#Adjective and suitable for planting in.
22 # (lb en figuratively)
23 ## To lose harshness; to become gentler, subdued#Adjective, or
toned down#Adjective.
24 ##* {RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3|act=IV|scene=iv|page=77|passage=So
now proſperitie begins to '''mellow''' / And drop into the rotten mouth
of Death: (...)}
25 ##* (RQ:Donne Works volume=VI chapter=On Himself page=560
passage=[T]ill death us lay / To ripe and '''mellow''', here we're
stubborn clay. footer=The spelling has been modernized.)
26 ##* {RQ:Herbert Travaile|edition=2nd|page=297|passage=The
Bannana's [taste] is no leſſe dainty: the tree mounts not high, but
ſpreads in a moſt gracefull poſture: the fruit is long, not unlike a
Soſſage in ſhape, in taſt moſt excellent: they ripen though you crop
them immaturely; and from a dark-greene, '''mellow''' into a flaming
yellow: (...)}
27 ##* {RQ:Byron Island|stanza=XVI|page=36|lines=360–363|passage=The
broad sun set, but not with lingering sweep, / As in the North he
'''mellows''' o'er the deep, / But fiery, full and fierce, as if he left
/ The world forever, earth of light bereft, (...)}
28 ##* (RQ:Dickens Barnaby Rudge chapter=11 page=297 passage=The very
furniture of the room seemed to '''mellow''' and deepen in its tone; the
ceiling and walls looked blacker and more highly polished, the curtains
of a ruddier red; the fire burnt clear and high, and the crickets in the
hearth-stone chirped with a more than wonted satisfaction.)
29 ## (lb en originally US informal followed by '''''out''''' of a
person) To relax; in particular, to become pleasantly high or stoned by
taking drugs.
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
Mellow
n.
(surname: en).
From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
mellow
Englanti a.
lempeä
From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
mellow
Engelska a.
mogen
Engelska vb.
mogna
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
ناضج
From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]
mellow //ˈmɛloʊ// //ˈmɛləʊ//
зрял
of fruit: soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
kyprý
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
vyzrálý
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
zjemnit
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
uvolněný
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
příjemný
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
měkký
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
jemný
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
zur Reife bringen
see: mellowing, mellowed
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
abgeklärt
Note: Mensch
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
ausgereift, reif, saftig, süß
see: mellower, mellowest
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
ausgereift [cook.]
Note: Weingeschmack
Note: wine taste
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
mild, weich, sanft
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
milder werden, weicher werden
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
[fig.] mildern
see: mellowing, mellowed, mellows, mellowed
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
mürbe
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
reifen, reifer werden
"Good wine needs to mellow." - Guter Wein muss reifen.
see: mellowing, mellowed
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
umgänglicher werden
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
warm, wohltuend
Note: Licht; Farbe
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
gelöst, heiter
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
gesetzt, besonnen
From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 : [ freedict:eng-hin ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
1. दयालु
"He is a very mellow person."
From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 : [ freedict:eng-hrv ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
blag, dobroćudan, dozrijevati, mek, odležan, omekšati, plodan, podnapit, pripit, rodan, sladak, sočan, zreo
From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:eng-hun ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
1. vidám
2. spicces
3. kedélyes
4. meleg
5. puha
6. érett
7. dús
8. gazdag
9. telt
10. finom
11. lágy
From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:eng-pol ]
mellow /ˈmeləʊ/
I. 1. dojrzały, soczysty
2. pełny, głęboki
II. dojrzewać, łagodnieć
From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-tur ]
mellow /mˈɛləʊ/
1. olgun
2. yıllanmış (şarap) dolgun, yumuşak, tatlı (ses veya renk)
3. iyi huylu, hoş tabiatlı
4. keyifli
5. yumuşak (toprak)
6. olgunlaşmak
7. yumuşatmak, yumuşamak. mellowness olgunluk
8. yumuşaklık.
From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
/ˈmɛɫoʊ/
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]
245 Moby Thesaurus words for "mellow":
achingly sweet, addled, advance, affable, age, aged, agreeable,
agreeable-sounding, amiable, amicable, appealing, ariose, arioso,
attain majority, bear fruit, beery, bemused, besotted, blind drunk,
blissful, bloom, blossom, blow, bring to maturity, canorous,
cantabile, catchy, cheerful, come of age, come to fruition,
come to maturity, compatible, complaisant, congenial, cordial,
crapulent, crapulous, creamy, cushion, delicate, delicious,
desirable, develop, developed, dizzy, drenched, drunk, drunken,
dulcet, ease, easy, easygoing, eggshell, en rapport, enjoyable,
euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, evolute, evolve, fair,
fair and pleasant, far-gone, felicific, felicitous, fine,
fine-toned, flat, flavorful, fledge, flourish, flower, fluff,
flustered, fou, friendly, full, full-blown, full-flavored,
full-fledged, full-grown, fully developed, gay, genial, gentle,
giddy, glorious, gloss, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced,
good, good-natured, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, grow,
grow up, happy, harmonious, heart-warming, honeyed, in full bloom,
in liquor, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated,
iridescent, jolly, jovial, juicy, knead, laxate, leave the nest,
light, likable, limber, limber up, liquid, loosen, luscious, mash,
massage, maturate, maturated, mature, matured, maudlin, melic,
mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellowed, mellowy, melodic,
melodious, merry, mild, milden, mollified, mollify,
mother-of-pearl, muddled, music-flowing, music-like, musical,
muted, nacreous, nappy, nice, nonresistive, nonrigid, opalescent,
pale, pastel, patinaed, pearly, plangent, pleasant,
pleasant-sounding, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving,
pleasureful, plump, progress, pulp, pulsing, pure, quiet,
reach its season, reach manhood, reach maturity, reach twenty-one,
reach voting age, ready, reeling, relax, resonant, resonating,
rewarding, rich, ripe, ripen, ripened, rolling, sad, satisfying,
season, seasoned, semigloss, settle down, shake up, shikker,
silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, simple,
singable, smash, sober, sodden, soft, soft as putty, soft-colored,
soft-hued, soften, soften up, softened, somber, songful, songlike,
sonorous, sotted, squash, subdue, subdued, subtle, supple, sweet,
sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding, sweeten, temper, tempered, tender,
tenderize, throbbing, tiddly, tipsy, toga virilis, tone down,
tunable, tune down, tuneful, under the influence, vibrant,
vibrating, warm, wax, welcome, whisper-soft
From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]
a. 成熟的,醇的,熟练的;
From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
a. 成熟的,醇的,熟练的
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