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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Crayon

/(kr?"?n)/ · Cray·on · IPA /ˈkɹeɪ.ɑn/
01 n. An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.
  1. 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.
  2. 2.
    A crayon drawing.
  3. 3.
    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.
02 v. t. To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.
imp. & p. p. Crayoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Crayoning
  1. 1.
    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.