n. [ 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. ] 1. An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A crayon drawing. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Electricity) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Crayoned p. pr. & vb. n. Crayoning. ] [ Cf. F. crayonner. ] To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan. [ 1913 Webster ]

He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably to the plan which he had crayoned out. Malone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. porte-crayon; porter to carry + crayon a crayon. ] A metallic handle with a clasp for holding a crayon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] Ray; beam. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A synthetic fiber, made of thin filaments of regenerated cellulose, extruded from a solution of viscose. Called also viscose fiber and viscose rayon fiber. [ PJC ]

2. a textile fabric made from rayon{ 1 }. [ PJC ]

a. [ F. ] (Her.) Darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out. [ 1913 Webster ]