Cray·on n.
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.
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.
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.