Hypertext Webster Gateway: "daguerreotype"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Daguerreotype \Da*guerre"o*type\ (d[.a]*g[e^]r"[-o]*t[imac]p),
n. [From Daguerre the inventor + -type.]
1. An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver
plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered
sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine,
on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image
is developed by the vapor of mercury.
2. The process of taking such pictures.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Daguerreotype \Da*guerre"o*type\ (d[.a]*g[e^]r"[-o]*t[imac]p),
v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Daguerreotyped} (-t[imac]pt); p. pr. &
vb. n. {Daguerreotyping} (-t[imac]`p[i^]ng).]
1. To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a
picture.
2. To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate
exactly.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
daguerreotype
n : a photograph made by an early photographic process; the
image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine
and developed in mercury vapor
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