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 ]
(n) |m| กบเหลาดินสอ เช่น Ma collection de Taille-crayon et l'histoire de l'invention de ce petit objet. Depuis l'age de 11 ans je collectionne les taille-crayons.
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