Crossword clues for mellower
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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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.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: mellow)
Usage examples of "mellower".
It was a bright clear day, the colors of the hills mellower, deeper, and no one raised any objection when Tukolom announced that they would visit the succession houses on the Joslin plateau where delicacies were grown.
The tenor's reprise naturally followed, on the third manual, mellower than the soprano range.
When we saw that the weeks of solitary were making him no mellower, were in fact making him rush daily fiercer at the fence when we brought his grain out, and roar and rumble nightly louder and louder like a pent-up volcano of sperm, we finally resorted to putting a potion in his serving of morning mash, hoping to raise his consciousness, if not up to the Knowledge of the Glorious All-Pervading Mercy that Passeth Understanding, at least up out of his scrotum.
The recorder was a form of the flute, with a mellower sound, and this gave him an advantage when, in human form, he played the flute.
When he described visiting the Mani, his voice became even mellower than usual, and his eyes glistened.