Mandarining

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]