xylography

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: xy=log=ra=phy

CIDE DICTIONARY

xylography, n. [Xylo- + -graphy: cf. F. xylographie.].

•  The art of engraving on wood.  [1913 Webster]
•  The art of making prints from the natural grain of wood.  Knight.  [1913 Webster]
•  A method pf printing in colors upon wood for purposes of house decoration.  Ure.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

xylography, n.
1 the (esp. early or primitive) practice of making woodcuts or wood-engravings.
2 the use of wood blocks in printing.

ROGET THESAURUS

xylography

Engraving

N engraving, chalcography, line engraving, mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving, dry point, bur, etching, aquatinta, chiseling, plate engraving, copperplate engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving, xylography, lignography, glyptography, cerography, lithography, chromolithography, photolithography, zincography, glyphography, xylograph, lignograph, glyptograph, cerograph, lithograph, chromolithograph, photolithograph, zincograph, glyphograph, holograph, impression, print, engraving, plate, steelplate, copperplate, etching, mezzotint, aquatint, lithotint, cut, woodcut, stereotype, graphotype, autotype, heliotype, graver, burin, etching point, style, plate, stone, wood block, negative, die, punch, stamp, printing, plate printing, copperplate printing, anastatic printing, color printing, lithographic printing, type printing, three-color process, illustration, illumination, half tone, photogravure, vignette, initial letter, cul de lampe, tailpiece, lapidary, lapidarian, insculptured, engraved, lapidary, sculpsit, imprimit.