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Pronunciation : Cray"on (kr"n)
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [F., a crayon, a lead pencil (crayon Cont? Cont?'s pencil, i. e., one made a black compound invented by Cont?), fr. craie chalk, L. creta; said to be, properly, Cretan earth, fr. Creta the island Crete. Cf. Cretaceous.]
Definition : 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)

Defn: 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Cray"on
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [Cf. F. crayonner.]
Definition : Defn: 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.

t. [imp. & p. p. Crayoned (-nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crayoning.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913