Soft with ripeness; easily yielding to pressure; as a mellow peach or apple; mellow fruit.

Soft to the ear; as a mellow sound; a mellow pipe.

Soft; well pulverized; not indurated or compact; as mellow ground or earth.

Soft and smooth to the taste; as mellow wine.

Soft with liquor; intoxicated; merry.

Soft or easy to the eye. The tender flush whose mellow stain imbues . Heaven with all freaks of light.

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.

To soften; to pulverize. Earth is mellowed by frost.

To mature; to bring to perfection. This episode--mellowed into that reputation which time has given it.

To become soft; to be ripened, matured or brought to perfection. Fruit, when taken from the tree, soon mellows. Wine mellows with age.