Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An engraving on wood.
  • noun An impression from a woodblock.
  • transitive verb To print from a wood engraving.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An engraving on wood.
  • noun An impression or print from a wood-block. In both senses the term is most commonly applied to old work, especially to that of the very earliest period.
  • noun A mechanical copy of the grain of wood, executed by a method of nature-printing, and used as a surface decoration.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An engraving on wood, or the impression from such an engraving; a print by xylography.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An engraving in wood, especially one used for printing.
  • noun A print taken from an engraving in wood.
  • verb transitive To make a print from an engraving in wood.

Etymologies

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Back-formation from xylography, corresponding to xylo- ("wood") + -graph.

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Examples

  • It's a coloured xylograph, single-leaf prints from about 1450.

    Back home... a stitch in time 2009

  • It's a coloured xylograph, single-leaf prints from about 1450.

    Archive 2009-06-01 a stitch in time 2009

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  • An engraving on wood or an impression made from a wood block.

    February 25, 2008