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(kr"?n), n.[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.] 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. 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) 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.] [Cf. F. crayonner.] 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. スポンサード リンク
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