mellowy

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Soft

   Soft; unctuous; loamy.

   • Thy plumpe and swelling wombe, whose mellowy gleabe doth beare The yellow ripened sheafe, that bendeth with the eare.
   • The first a dry mellowy soil, made up of a due mixture of clay and sand, very deep, and passes under the name of daichy haughs.
2. 2

   Mild

   Mild; subdued; gentle; not at all harsh or sharp.

   • mellowy light
   • Like a stream-wrestling lily of mellowy gold, What sweet parted lips, and what glozy blue eyes, Purple-steeped as the heartsease held up to the light!
   • A little distance off was a grey and mossy cottage, the sight of which made Michael's heart leap, and called to his memory many reflections, pleasing, but mellowy sad.
3. 3

   Tender

   Tender; emotional.

   • Anita saw that look on him, that mellowy, kind of stupid look that some men get when they've been drinking.
   • Not that he got all soft and mellowy around them, but he'd never met one he didn't like.
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   1. 4

      Mature and soft

      Mature and soft; ripe.

      • Round its sides, A range of Gardens, gay as those which crown'd Thy work Semiramis, luxuriant waved With Autumn's mellowy growth;
      • Autumn's rich mellowy fruit bedecks the trees, Laid low, beneath a winter's stormy skies.
      • The first named never becomes a mellowy Pear, even grown on a south wall here ;

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