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noun

Crayon n.

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." 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.

A crayon drawing.

(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.

verb

Crayon v. t. (past & past part. crayoned; pres. part. crayoning) 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."

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"Crayon" Quotes from Famous Books

... consequent one-sidedness of his intellectual action, nor the unmanning effects of his despotism. The words used to describe the moral side of the Imperial career are as insufficient as would be the strokes of a gray crayon to depict a conflagration or a sunset. In the paper from which has already been quoted he speaks of the "rare good sense" of Napoleon, of "his instinct of justice." But was it not a compact array of the selfish impulses against a weak instinct ...

— Essays AEsthetical • George Calvert

... present one day at Barleduc, when King Francis II., for a memorial of Rene, king of Sicily, was presented with a portrait he had drawn of himself: why is it not in like manner lawful for every one to draw himself with a pen, as he did with a crayon? I will not, therefore, omit this blemish though very unfit to be published, which is irresolution; a very great effect and very incommodious in the negotiations of the affairs of the world; in doubtful enterprises, I ...

— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne

... was taking my leave, Goethe requested me to come the next morning and have myself sketched, for he was in the habit of having drawings made of those of his visitors who interested him. They were done in black crayon by an artist especially engaged for the work, and the pictures were then put into a frame which hung in the reception-room for this purpose, being changed in regular rotation every week. This honor ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VI. • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

... could," said Rose, and Mrs. Pierce brought a sheet of paper and a red crayon from a big desk in the corner and laid ...

— A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony • Alice Turner Curtis

... that had first surveyed life from the jig-saw "residence" of a raw-edged Western town. The high-ceilinged rooms, with their panelled walls, their polished mahogany, their portraits of triple-stocked ancestors and of ringleted "females" in crayon, furnished the child with the historic scenery against which a young imagination constructs its vision of the past. To other eyes the cold spotless thinly-furnished interior might have suggested the shuttered mind of a maiden-lady who associates fresh air and sunlight with dust and discoloration; ...

— Crucial Instances • Edith Wharton

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