Band books

Cray"on (krā"?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.

Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some
strokes of the pencil or the crayon.

Dryden.

&fist; 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.

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.

Cray"on, v.


Pages:
2357 2358 2359 2360 2361 2362 2363 2364 2365 2366 2367 2368 2369 2370 2371 2372 2373 2374 2375 2376 2377 2378 2379 2380 2381