xylograph (zilograf)

[ IMG:content-2653.png:[blocks in formation] Some of these changes of form, otherwise inexplicable, since they are from simpler and easier forms to others more complicated and seemingly more difficult, can be readily accounted for by the fact that the runes were e entially a xylographic script. Isaac Taylor , The Alphabet, II. 221. xylographical (zi-lō-graf'i-kal), a. [ xylophone of the family Pholadidæ, as X. dorsal is.-2. [1. c.] A member of this genus. Xylophaga looks like a very short ship-worm, making burrows in floating wood, against the grain, about an inch long. P. P. Carpenter, Lectures on Mollusca (1861), p. 99.