Mellow

mel'lo, a. Soft; not hard, harsh, tough, or unyielding, — as, soft with ripene , ripe: or well broken and lying lightly, as soil; or not hard, coarse, or rough to the senses; soft, rich, delicate, — said of sound, color, flavor, etc.; well matured: genial; jovial with liquor; sliglitly intoxicated; fuddled. — v. [mellowed (-lod), -LOWING.] To make mellow, ripen, soften by age; to pulverize. — v. To become soft; to be ripened, matured, or brought to perfection. [AS. meant, soft, tender; E. moll is, Gr. malakos, soft, Goth, mal an, to grind, E. meal, mar, melt, mild, etc.] — Mellowne , n. Melocoton, -toon, mel'o-ko-tdon'j n. A quince; also, a large kind of peach. [Sp. melocoton, a peach tree grafted into a quince tree L. malum cotottium, a quince or quince-apple, Cydonia, in Crete.] Melodrama, mel-o-dra'ma or -dra'ma, n. A dramatic performance in which songs are intermixed, and effect sought by startling, exaggerated, or unnatural sentiment or situation. [F. melodrame, fr. Gr. melos, a song, and drama, dramatos, drama, q. v.] — Melodramatic, a. Pert, to, or of the nature of, etc. overstrained coarsely exaggerated. — Melodram'atist. a. A writer of, etc.