Hypertext Webster Gateway: "crayon"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Crayon \Cray"on\ (kr?"?n), n. [F., a crayon, a lead pencil
(crayon Cont['e] Cont['e]'s pencil, i. e., one made a black
compound invented by Cont['e]), 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.
Note: The black crayon gives a deeper black than the lead
pencil. This and the colored crayons are often called
chalks. The red crayon is also called sanguine. See
{Chalk}, and {Sanguine}.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Crayon \Cray"on\, v. 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
crayon
n : writing implement consisting of a colored stick of
composition wax used for writing and drawing [syn: {wax
crayon}]
v : write, draw, or trace with a crayon
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