Mandarin

Mandarin - Other Definitions

• (n.) A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.
  
  
• (n.) A small orange, with easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus nobilis)mandarin orange; tangerine --.
  
  
• (n.) 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.