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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple.
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Hence:
Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid; as, a mellow soil. ``Mellow glebe.''
--Drayton-
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.
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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. Warmed by liquor; slightly intoxicated.
--Addison.
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.
Mellow \Mel"low\, v. i.
To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows. ``Prosperity
begins to mellow.''
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., melwe "soft, sweet, juicy" (of ripe fruit), perhaps related to melowe, variant of mele "ground grain" (see meal (2)), influenced by Middle English merow "soft, tender," from Old English mearu. Meaning "slightly drunk" is from 1680s. Mellow yellow "banana peel smoked in an effort to get high" is from 1967. Related: Mellowly; mellowness.
1570s, from mellow (adj.). Related: Mellowed; mellowing.
Wiktionary
1 Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp. 2 Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid. 3 Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued, soft, rich, delicate; said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc. 4 Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial. 5 relaxed; calm; easygoing; laid-back. n. A relaxed mood. v
1 (context transitive English) To make mellow; to relax or soften. 2 (context intransitive English) To become mellow#Adjective.
WordNet
adj. unhurried and relaxed; "an easygoing pace"; "a mellow conversation" [syn: easygoing, laid-back]
having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging; "a mellow port"; "mellowed fruit" [syn: mellowed]
having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience; "mellow wisdom"; "the peace of mellow age" [syn: mellowed]
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]
slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana) [syn: high]
adv. (obsolete) in a mellow manner [syn: mellowly]
v. soften, make mellow; "Age and experience mellowed him over the years"
become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial; "With age, he mellowed" [syn: melt, mellow out]
make or grow (more) mellow; "These apples need to mellow a bit more"; "The sun mellowed the fruit"
Wikipedia
Mellow is the second album by Maria Mena. Released in Norway as a counterpart to her US album White Turns Blue, it was accompanied by the single "You're the Only One". The album was produced by Arvid Solvang.
Mellow may refer to:
- Mellow (Maria Mena album), 2004
- Mellow (Donovan album), 1997
- Mellow (Sonny Stitt album), 1975
- Mellow (band)
Mellow is a 2CD compilation album by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan, released on 1 November 1997 (Recall 158).
The original concept for mellow came from founder Patrick Woodcock, a multi-instrumentalist, who had befriended Nicolas Godin ( Air) while they were getting their architecture degree in Versailles. They were brought together by their shared passion for 1960s and 1970s vintage instruments, such as the mellotron, the moog, and other old organs and drum machines, which they both subsequently incorporated in their music. After a short stint with Godin during Air's first incarnation, collaborating on Premiers Symptômes as a musician and arranger, as well as on Moon Safari, and co-writing '"Ce Matin-Là"', Woodcock felt he needed to form his own band. He called on his old friend Pierre Bégon-Lours, then a sound engineer who had access to a recording studio near Paris where they recorded their first demos in 1997. Another sound engineer, enlisted by Bégon-Lours, joined the band for a couple of years.
Their first concert took place in Brighton, in 1998. Soon after, they were signed by French independent record label, Atmosphériques. In 1998, mellow joined forces with Air and Sean Lennon for their first French tour.
The first album, Another Mellow Winter, was released worldwide in 1999. They contacted the director, Roman Coppola, to shoot the video for the single "Another Mellow Winter". In 2000, Coppola asked mellow to score his 1960s-sci-fi debut feature CQ. At the same time, mellow scored the title track to Novocaine, a dark comedy by David Atkins, starring Steve Martin and Helena Bonham Carter. That year, mellow toured in Japan, the UK and the US.
The soundtrack for CQ was released as mellow's second album in 2001. In between albums, mellow continued to work on other people's music, lending their hand to bands such as Major Deluxe, Nice Hashimoto, The Free Design, Philippe Katerine and Bridge & Tunnel. They also scored TV commercials (Gauloise cigarettes, EDF, Tommy Hilfiger and Johnson and Johnson).
In 2004, their third album Perfect Colors was released. Woodcock and Bégon-Lours toured with fellow French band Syd Matters. Their band included Lionel Rault (Flairs), Mark Kerr ( Simple Minds, Rita Mitsouko) and Laurent Bauer (Venus Paradise).
They designed their own recording studio in Saint-Cloud, Mellow Workshop, where they could switch roles and produce other artists. Since then, Woodcock and Bégon-Lours have been working on their fourth album, with guest musicians such as Bent ( Das Pop), Rémi Alexandre ( Syd Matters) and Samy Osta (Domingo), Julien Galner (Chateau Marmont). The next album is slated to be released later in 2015.
Mellow is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1975 and released on the Muse label.
Usage examples of "mellow".
The hundreds upon hundreds of glistening, vase-shaped balusters had been turned from a mellow yellow stone that seemed to glow from within.
Accordingly your path was here beguiled with the warbling of a thousand birds, the full-toned blackbird, the mellow thrush, and the pensive nightingale.
He found that bistre and bitumen, which most painters were abandoning, made his colouring ripe and mellow.
When Thomas had turned forty, Arleon had granted him the living at Blas Lodge, a mellow old hunting house at the edge of the forest, north of Paddleways.
They had hired a strolling marimba player to entertain with his music, and the mellow notes of the instrument were blending with the tinkle of the illuminated fountains.
As he mellowed into his plaintive history his tears dripped upon the lantern in his lap, and I cried, too, from sympathy.
In deep and natural fraternal affection, which is more powerful when mellowed by virtue, Pere Augustin saw the hand of death making each day new traces on the frame of Alvira.
And finally, in late middle-age, a mellowing, a relaxation of the armor, just enough for the ruling age-group to make alliances and deal successfully with the outer world.
The sun was low in the sky, the light mellowing, the shadows deepening.
She had seen everything made in that period and was content to spend the mellowing years of her motherhood in front of the TV set, viewing the same movies again and again.
They exchanged newsy little tidbits until their stomachs were filled and the beer had mellowed them out.
The orgulous monarch turns to mellow speech When warfare helps him not.
They traveled along the bank, speaking in a low mellow tone, a language which the Outdoor Girls and the boys had never heard before.
A mellow sea-breeze came cantering out of the west to lift among the sails the Royal Heraldry of the pennoncels and the long ribbons of streamers, the gay banners and the swallow-tailed gittons, laying them straight along its flowing mane.
Mellow Sixties, a slower-moving time, predigital, not yet so cut into pieces, not even by television.