crayon

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Noun, Verb (usu participle)

HYPHEN

cray=on

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CIDE DICTIONARY

crayon, n. [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.].

An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders. [1913 Webster]
" 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." [1913 Webster]

"Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon." [1913 Webster]
A crayon drawing. [1913 Webster]
A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light. [1913 Webster]

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.

crayon, v. t. [Cf. F. crayonner.].

To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan. [1913 Webster]

"He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably to the plan which he had crayoned out." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

crayon, n. & v.
--n.
1 a stick or pencil of coloured chalk, wax, etc. used for drawing.
2 a drawing made with this.
--v.tr. draw with crayons.

Etymology

F f. craie f. L creta chalk

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THESAURUS

crayon

air brush, art paper, black and white, brouillon, brush, camera lucida, camera obscura, canvas, cartoon, chalk, charcoal, charcoal drawing, chiaroscuro, delineation, design, diagram, doodle, draft, drawing, drawing paper, drawing pencil, drier, easel, ebauche, esquisse, fixative, graph, ground, lay figure, line drawing, maulstick, medium, paint, paintbrush, palette, palette knife, pastel, pen-and-ink, pencil, pencil drawing, pigments, rough copy, rough draft, rough outline, scratchboard, siccative, silhouette, silver-print drawing, sinopia, sketch, sketchbook, sketchpad, spatula, spray gun, study, stump, tracing, varnish, vignette

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