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   Crayon (kr?ˈ?n), 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.
   
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   Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon. Dryden.
   
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   ☞ 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.
   
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   2. A crayon drawing.
   
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   3. (Electricity) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
   
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   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.
   
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   Crayon, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crayoned (-?nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crayoning.] [Cf. F.  crayonner.] To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.
   
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   He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably to the plan which he had crayoned out. Malone.
   
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