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  1. 1. n. An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. A crayon drawing. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light. Source: opted
  4. 4. v. t. To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan. Source: opted
  5. 5. n. writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing Source: wordnet
  6. 6. v. write, draw, or trace with a crayon Source: wordnet
  7. 7. 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. To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan. He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably to the plan which he had crayoned out. Malone. Source: webster
  8. 8. A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light. Crayonboard, cardboard with a surface prepared for crayon drawing.-- Crayon drawing, the act or art of drawing with crayons; a drawingmade with crayons. Source: adambom
  9. 9. n:100 n. writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing v. write, draw, or trace with a crayon Source: ecdict

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