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CRAYON
crayon, wax crayon
(noun) writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing
crayon
(verb) write, draw, or trace with a crayon
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
crayon (plural crayons)
A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
Hyponym: Conté
A colored pencil, a colouring pencil
Synonym: pencil crayon
(dated) A crayon drawing.
(dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
Verb
crayon (third-person singular simple present crayons, present participle crayoning, simple past and past participle crayoned)
(ambitransitive) To draw with a crayon.
Anagrams
• acyron
Source: Wiktionary
Cray"on (kr"n), n. Etym: [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.
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)
Definition: 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, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crayoned (-nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crayoning.] Etym: [Cf. F. crayonner.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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