a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor
source: WordNet 3.0
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.
source: Webster 1913
verb
To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture.
