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Webster 1913 Edition
Crayon
Cray′on
(kr?′?n)
, Noun.
[F., a crayon, a lead pencil (
crayon Conté
Conté’s pencil, i. e., one made a black compound invented by Conté), fr. craie
chalk, L. creta
; said to be, properly, Cretan earth, fr. Creta
the island Crete. Cf. Cretaceous
.] 1.
An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.
Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some strokes of the pencil or the
crayon
. Dryden.
2.
A crayon drawing.
3.
(Electricity)
A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
Crayon board
, cardboard with a surface prepared for crayon drawing.
– Crayon drawing
, the act or art of drawing with crayons; a drawing made with crayons.
Cray′on
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Crayoned
(-?nd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Crayoning
.] [Cf. F.
crayonner
.] To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.
He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably to the plan which he had
crayoned
out. Malone.
Webster 1828 Edition
Crayon
CRAYON
,Noun.
1.
A general name for all colored stones, earths, or other minerals and substances, used in designing or painting in pastel or paste, whether they have been beaten and reduced to paste, or are used in their primitive consistence. Red crayons are made of blood-stone or red chalk; black ones, of charcoal or black lead.2.
A kind of pencil, or roll of paste, to draw lines with.3.
A drawing or design done with a pencil or crayon.