mandarining

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English

Etymology

From mandarin +‎ -ing.

Noun

mandarining (uncountable)

  1. The use of dilute nitric acid to give an orange colour to goods formed of animal tissue, such as silk or wool.
    • 1852-1866, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures
      By this method, which is called mandarining, an orange colour is given to silk and wool, not from the solution of a colouring matter, but by producing a certain change in the fibre by the action of dilute nitric acid.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mandarining”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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