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

In a mellow manner.

Quality or state of being mellow.

Soft; unctuous. Drayton.

Too mellow; overripe.

A man of any age who has not been married. As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound. W. Irving.

Mellow earth; mold. [Obs.] Bacon.

sure method of destroying weeds. Be a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop. Sinclair. Fallow crop, the crop taken from a green fallow. [Eng.] -- Green fallow, fallow whereby land is rendered mellow and clean from weeds, by cult…

Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes. Busby.

Mellow, as land. [Prov.Eng.] Ray.

Same as Ousel. The mellow ouzel fluted in the elm. Tennyson.

ortune; success; as, commercial prosperity; national prosperity. Now prosperity begins to mellow. Shak. Prosperities can only be enjoyed by them who fear not at all to lose the Jer. Taylor.

aracteristic taste; tasting of the soil; hence, fresh; rich. The racy wine, Late from the mellowing cask restored to light. Pope.

Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.

To scatter about. [Obs.] Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Milton.

Somewhat shrill. [Poetic] Sir W. Scott. Some kept up a shrilly mellow sound. Keats.

To make mellow; to break, as land; also, to destroy, as weeds.

note to note as smoothly as the human voice or a violin. Softly blown, it has a rich and mellow sound, which becomes harsh and blatant when the tones are forced; used with discretion, its effect is often solemn and majestic.

note of a bird; as, the sharp whistle of a boy, or of a boatswain's pipe; the blackbird's mellow whistle. Might we but hear The folded flocks, penned in their wattled cotes, . . . Or whistle from the lodge. Milton. The countryman could not forbear smiling, . . . and by that means lost his whistle. Spectator. They fear…