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.
Mel"low, v. i. To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows.
"Prosperity begins to mellow." Shak.
Mel"low*ly, adv. In a mellow manner.
Mel"low*ness, n. Quality or state of being mellow.
Mel"low*y (?), a. Soft; unctuous. Drayton.
||Mel*lu"co (?), n. (Bot.) A climbing plant (Ullucus officinalis) of
||the Andes, having tuberous roots which are used as a substitute for
||potatoes.
Mel"ne (?), n. A mill. [Obs.] Chaucer.
{ Mel`o*co*ton", Mel`o*co*toon" } (?), n. [Sp. melocoton a kind of
peach tree and its fruit, L. malum cotonium, or cotonea, or Cydonia, a
quince, or quince tree, lit., apple of Cydonia, Gr. &?; &?;. See
Quince.] (Bot.) (a) A quince. (b) A kind of peach having one side deep
red, and the flesh yellow. [Written also malacatoon, malacotune.]
Me*lo"de*on (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; musical. See Melody, and cf.
Odeon.]
1. (Mus.) A kind of small reed organ; -- a portable form of the
seraphine.