'Mandarining' definitions:

Definition of 'Mandarining'

From: GCIDE
  • Mandarining \Man`da*rin"ing\, n. (Dyeing) The process of giving an orange color to goods formed of animal tissue, as silk or wool, not by coloring matter, but by producing a certain change in the fiber by the action of dilute nitric acid. --Tomlinson. [1913 Webster]