Crayon /(kr?"?n)/
Cray·on
Crayon
n.
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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.
- A crayon drawing.
- A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light. (Electricity)
Phrases & Compounds
- 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.
imp. & p. p. Crayoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Crayoning
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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.