crayon
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crayon
write, draw, or trace with a crayon -
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crayon
writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing
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Crayon
A crayon drawing. -
Crayon
(Electricity) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light. -
Crayon
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 ." -
Crayon
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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(n)
crayon
A pencil-shaped piece of colored clay, chalk, or charcoal, used for drawing upon paper. Crayons are made from certain mineral substances in their natural state, such as red or black chalk, but they are more commonly manufactured from a fine paste of chalk or pipeclay colored with various pigments, and consolidated by means of gum, wax, soap, etc. Crayons vary in hardness. The soft crayons and the half-hard are used through the medium of a stump, while the hard are used as a lead-pencil. See pastel. -
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crayon
A pencil made of a composition of soap, resin, wax, and lampblack, used for drawing upon lithographic stones. -
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crayon
One of the carbon-points in an electric lamp. -
crayon
Drawn with crayons: as, a crayon sketch. -
crayon
To sketch or draw with a crayon. -
crayon
Hence To sketch in general; plan; commit to paper one's first thoughts.
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Crayon
krā′on a pencil made of chalk or pipeclay, variously coloured, used for drawing: a drawing done with crayons -
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Crayon
to draw with a crayon
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F., a crayon, a lead pencil (crayon Conté, Conté's pencil, i. e., one made a black compound invented by Conté), fr. craie, chalk, L. creta,; said to be, properly, Cretan earth, fr. Creta, the island Crete. Cf. Cretaceous
SNOWMASS VILLAGE — They are as colorful as a shiny box of crayons and drift effortlessly among the clouds. snowmasssun.com
Sonia Kashuk Velvety Matte Lip Crayon. usmagazine.com
Kindergartners arriving in classroom C-15 one recent morning grabbed their crayon boxes, took their - 11:24 pm. thedailyjournal.com
This will be used to melt the crayons. lite987.com
He will be arriving at our house tonight to fill stockings with new boxes of Crayons, Hot Wheels cars and flavored lip glosses. ashtimesherald.com
Doctors Say Crayons Are The Most-Common Thing Kids Stick Up Their Nose. sojo1049.com
For the back-to-school season, Kraft has partnered with Crayola for a joint promotion that disrupts the string-cheese shelf with limited-edition packaging that turns Kraft and Polly-O brand string-cheese pouches into colorful crayon boxes. packworld.com
Twenty years ago, Bob McGrath, the artistic director of Ridge Theater, received a letter written half in crayon and half in pencil. villagevoice.com
Hey, kids, get out your paint and crayons, your markers and colored pencils. ashingtonpost.com
Juice boxes, nap time, and crayons. itf.org
"We collected toy cars, crayons, pencils and all kinds of toys," Thornton said. clintonnews.com
Dad James Orta tries a little crayon coloring with his 2-year-old daughter Madison at the Bamboo Farm and Coastal Gardens Fall Festival Saturday. savannahnow.com
The spokesman for Bianchi said an x-ray examination of the package showed no items of concern, and that when it was opened, Morris County Sheriff's Office Emergency Service members found 48 boxes of crayons. nj.com
It borders on cliché , but the list would not be complete without "Harold and the Purple Crayon" by Crockett Johnson. nydailynews.com
'Suspicious package' at Whippany Jewish center was a box of crayons. nj.com
The last essay in the "Spirit of the Age" is entitled "Elia and Geoffrey Crayon. "Hazlitt on English Literature" by
But no crayon could convey an idea of the squeaky voice and the supercilious manner. "A Canadian Bankclerk" by
Young as you are in years, you are too old to begin with the crayon. "The Serapion Brethren." by
So heartbroken was I that it was long before I felt able to take to my crayons again. "The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun" by
Cheap colored crayons can often be used with added value. "With the Children on Sunday" by
The outline as well as the rest of the picture is drawn in crayon. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6" by
Use charcoal, or colored crayon, on manila paper. "Stories Pictures Tell" by
They colored pictures with their crayons. "The Bible Story" by
A sudden twist of the crayon, and lo, a wild bull was charging at the basket and its baby. "The Story of Chautauqua" by
For a little while, Silas made no reply, but sat like one dazed, his eyes fixed on the crayon portrait of himself. "Gabriel Tolliver" by
front of me
and asks me to draw a homeland for him.
The brush trembles in my hands
and I sink, weeping.
It can't have fatigued him,— no, not in the least,—
A dash here and there with a haphazard crayon,
And there stands the wrinkled-skinned, baggy-limbed beast.