Gentle and not easily angered.
a mild man
Of only moderate severity; not strict.
He received a mild sentence.
Not overly felt or seriously intended.
I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.
A relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale
'Let me get this for the lady,' I said to Fange, who was pulling her a pint of mild.
From Middle English milde, from Old English milde (“mild”), from Proto-Germanic *mildijaz (“mild”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to beat, pound, grind”). Cognate with Scots mild, myld (“mild”), ...
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