You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.
DAGUERREOTYPING
Verb
daguerreotyping
present participle of daguerreotype
Source: Wiktionary
DAGUERREOTYPE
Da*guerre"o*type, n. Etym: [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.
Da*guerre"o*type, v. t. [imp. & p.p. Daguerreotyped; p. pr. & vb. n. Daguerreotyping.]
1. To produce or represent by the daguerreotype process, as a picture.
2. To impress with great distinctness; to imprint; to imitate exactly.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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