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 inwood , especially one used forprinting . - noun A
print taken from an engraving in wood. - verb transitive To make a
print from anengraving inwood .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Back-formation from xylography, corresponding to xylo- ("wood") + -graph.
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Examples
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It's a coloured xylograph, single-leaf prints from about 1450.
Back home... a stitch in time 2009
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It's a coloured xylograph, single-leaf prints from about 1450.
Archive 2009-06-01 a stitch in time 2009
reesetee commented on the word xylograph
An engraving on wood or an impression made from a wood block.
February 25, 2008