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crayon

kreɪɑn
WordNet
Red pencil or crayon drawing of a Brandes slave girl. Portrait drawn with love from the side, her head with a sarong chested obliquely in front. Part of Jan Brandes' sketchbook, vol. 2 (1808), p. 108.
Red pencil or crayon drawing of a Brandes slave girl. Portrait drawn with love from the side, her head with a sarong chested obliquely in front. Part of Jan Brandes' sketchbook, vol. 2 (1808), p. 108.
  1. (v) crayon
    write, draw, or trace with a crayon
  2. (n) crayon
    writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
The best selling Crayola crayon box is the set of 24 crayons
  1. Crayon
    A crayon drawing.
  2. Crayon
    (Electricity) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
  3. 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 ."
  4. 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."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Soy crayons have been invented to replace wax crayons and one acre of soybeans can produce over 80,000 crayons
  1. (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.
  2. (n) crayon
    A pencil made of a composition of soap, resin, wax, and lampblack, used for drawing upon lithographic stones.
  3. (n) crayon
    One of the carbon-points in an electric lamp.
  4. crayon
    Drawn with crayons: as, a crayon sketch.
  5. crayon
    To sketch or draw with a crayon.
  6. crayon
    Hence To sketch in general; plan; commit to paper one's first thoughts.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
The two top toys in 1950 were Silly Putty which sold for $1, and Crayola crayons which sold for 50 cents
  1. (n) Crayon
    krā′on a pencil made of chalk or pipeclay, variously coloured, used for drawing: a drawing done with crayons
  2. (v.t) Crayon
    to draw with a crayon
Etymology

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

Usage in the news

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

Usage in literature

The last essay in the "Spirit of the Age" is entitled "Elia and Geoffrey Crayon. "Hazlitt on English Literature" by Jacob Zeitlin

But no crayon could convey an idea of the squeaky voice and the supercilious manner. "A Canadian Bankclerk" by J. P. Buschlen

Young as you are in years, you are too old to begin with the crayon. "The Serapion Brethren." by Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann

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 Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

Cheap colored crayons can often be used with added value. "With the Children on Sunday" by Sylvanus Stall

The outline as well as the rest of the picture is drawn in crayon. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6" by Various

Use charcoal, or colored crayon, on manila paper. "Stories Pictures Tell" by Flora Carpenter

They colored pictures with their crayons. "The Bible Story" by Rev. Newton Marshall Hall

A sudden twist of the crayon, and lo, a wild bull was charging at the basket and its baby. "The Story of Chautauqua" by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

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 Joel Chandler Harris

Usage in poetry
My son lays down his pens, his crayon box in
front of me
and asks me to draw a homeland for him.
The brush trembles in my hands
and I sink, weeping.
How easy! no troublesome colors to lay on,
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.