Crayon

Crayon
Crayon Cray"on (kr?"?n), n. [F., a crayon, a lead pencil (crayon Cont['e] Cont['e]'s pencil, i. e., one made a black compound invented by Cont['e]), 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]

Note: 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]


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  • crayon — [ krɛjɔ̃ ] n. m. • 1704; créonXVIe; croion « sol crayeux » 1309; de craie 1 ♦ (1528 créon) Petit morceau de divers minerais (d abord la craie) propre à écrire, à dessiner. ⇒ charbon, fusain, graphite, 2. pastel, plombagine. Dessin aux deux… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Crayon — Deux bouts de crayon HB …   Wikipédia en Français

  • crayon — CRAYON. s. m. Petit morceau de pierre de mine, ou de quelque autre matière colorée, propre à marquer, à écrire, à tracer et à dessiner. Crayon blanc. Crayon de mine. Crayon de sanguine. Crayon de charbon. Crayon de pastel. Crayon rouge. Crayon… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

  • crayon — Crayon. s. m. Petit morceau de pierre de mine, ou de quelque autre chose propre à marquer, à escrire, à tracer, & à portraire. Gros crayon. petit crayon. crayon blanc. crayon de mine. crayon de sanguine. crayon de charbon. crayon de pastel.… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • Crayon —   [ kreɪən], Geoffrey, Pseudonym des amerikanischen Schriftstellers Washington Irving.   * * * Cra|yon [krɛ jõ:] usw.: ↑Krayon usw. Kray|on, Crayon [krɛ jõ:], der; s, s [frz. crayon, zu: craie = Kreide] (veraltet): 1. Bleistift. 2. Kreide[stift] …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Crayon — Cray on, 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. [1913 Webster] He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably to the plan which he had… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • crayon — 1640s, from Fr. crayon pencil (16c.), originally chalk pencil, from craie chalk, from L. creta chalk, pipe clay, of unknown origin. Not now considered to mean Cretan earth, as once was believed …   Etymology dictionary

  • crayon — ► NOUN ▪ a stick of coloured chalk or wax, used for drawing. ► VERB ▪ draw with a crayon or crayons. ORIGIN French, from craie chalk …   English terms dictionary

  • Crayon — bezeichnet: einen Bleistift (auch Krayon) einen Wachsmalstift das markante Hochhaus in Lyon, das als Unternehmenszentrale des Crédit Lyonnais diente. Diese Seite ist eine …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Crayon — (fr., spr. Krajong), Stift (Bleistift, Silberstift, Rothstift, schwarze Kreide etc.), zum Zeichnen; daher Crayonirt, mit solchen Stiften gezeichnet. Die Crayonzeichnung, namentlich mit Silberstift auf Pergament, gestattet eine sehr zarte… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

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