crayon Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing
    wax crayon.
  2. verb write, draw, or trace with a crayon

WordNet

Cray"on noun
Etymology
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.
Definitions
  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.
    ✍ 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.
Cray"on transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. F. crayonner.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Crayoned present participle & verbal noun Crayoning
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913