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

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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

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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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