About The Word Crayon
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Crayon
Crayon Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Crayon?
[n] writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing
[v] write, draw, or trace with a crayon Synonyms | Synonyms for Crayon: wax crayon Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | draw | writing implement Crayon In Webster's Dictionary \Cray"on\ (kr?"?n), n. [F., a crayon, a lead pencil
(crayon Cont['e] Cont['e]'s pencil, i. e., one made a black
compound invented by Cont['e]), 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) 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. |
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