Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mellowing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mellowing
adj : 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:
{mellow}]
n : the process of becoming mellow
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