Crossword clues for crayon
crayon
- Pastel stick
- Coloring implement
- Chalk alternative
- Waxy coloring stick
- Wax drawing stick
- Wax art class item
- Used one to scribble lyrics in first grade
- Tot's marker
- Tot's drawing tool
- Tot's coloring stick
- Preschooler's writing tool
- Preschool writing aid
- One of a colorful 64
- One of 64 in some boxes
- Licorice stick, for instance
- Kindergarten tool
- Kindergarten implement, maybe
- Kindergarten implement
- Kindergarten art item
- Kid's writing tool
- It colors in a kid's coloring book
- Handout with a kids' menu, maybe
- Handout with a kids' menu
- Diversion for a tot
- Cyrano (anag)
- Coloring tool
- Coloring need
- Coloring book necessity
- Color marker
- Chalk relative
- Artistic medium for many homemade cards
- (Draw with) a coloured stick
- One of a set of 64, maybe
- Colorer's need
- Preschooler's medium
- Tool for many a homemade Mother's Day card
- It's kept within the lines, usually
- Wax cylinder
- Kid's coloring implement
- Writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing
- Kindergarten need
- Coloring-book adjunct
- Irving's pen name
- Type of drawing
- French pencil
- Colouring stick
- Cold 15 fabric in drawer for 20
- Chap involved in scam, a colourful writer
- Writer implicating boy in fraud
- Pencil case originally having smooth fabric
- Pants crony put in a drawer
- Drawing implement
- Trick involving light colour
- Tool for many a homemade card
- Coloring stick
- Kindergarten staple
- Stick in a box
- Drawing stick
- Marker alternative
- Kid's coloring stick
- Drawer of a sort
- Wax pencil
- Tot's writing implement
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
A crayon drawing.
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(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.
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.
He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably
to the plan which he had crayoned out.
--Malone.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from French crayon "pencil" (16c.), originally "chalk pencil," from craie "chalk," from Latin creta "chalk, pipe-clay," which is of unknown origin. Not now considered to mean "Cretan earth," as once was believed.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing; a colored pencil. 2 (context dated English) A crayon drawing. 3 (context dated English) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light. vb. To draw with a crayon.
WordNet
n. writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing [syn: wax crayon]
v. write, draw, or trace with a crayon
Wikipedia
A crayon (or wax pastel) is a stick of colored wax, charcoal, chalk or other material used for writing or drawing. A crayon made of pigment with a dry binder is a pastel; when made of oiled chalk it is called an oil pastel. A grease pencil or Chinese marker (UK chinagraph pencil) is made of colored hardened grease. There are also watercolor crayons, sometimes called water-soluble crayons.
Crayons, which are available at a range of price points, are easy to work with, often less messy than paints and markers, blunt (removing the risk of sharp points present when using a pencil or pen), typically non-toxic, and are available in a wide variety of colors. These characteristics make them particularly good instruments for teaching small children to draw in addition to being used widely by student and professional artists.
A crayon is a stick of colored wax, charcoal, chalk or other material used for writing and drawing.
Crayon may also refer to:
- Crayon (band), American indiepop band
- "Crayon", a song by Manitoba from his 2003 album Up in Flames
- Crayons (Donna Summer album), 2008 studio album by Donna Summer
- Le crayon, a nickname for the Tour du Crédit Lyonnais
- Crayon (film), 2010 Malaysian family drama film directed by Dean A. Burhanuddin
- Crayon, Ohio, a community in the United States
- Crayon Shin-chan, comedic comic and TV series by Yoshito Usui
- "크레용 (Crayon)", song by Korean singer-rapper G-Dragon from his mini-album One of a Kind.
Crayon was an indie pop band from Washington State featuring Brad Roberts (guitar/vocals), Sean Tollefson (bass/vocals) and Jeff Fell (drums).
Crayon (also referred to as Crayon the Movie) is a 2010 Malaysian drama film. Written and directed by Dean A. Burhanuddin, it stars Hon Kahoe, Faisal Abdullah, Adibah Noor and Joshry Adamme. Its producers are Dean A. Burhanuddin, Linda Ziegler and Elise A. Hamid.
Inspired by true events, the film portrays two university students who volunteer for a social program to help orphans in the east coast of Malaysia during their semester holidays. However, the land they are visiting are reclaimed by land developers for their own purposes. A charity concert is held in their effort to help more, but the orphanage gets burnt down. This startling turn of events causes doubt to their new sense of purpose, and forces them to test their adversity.
Usage examples of "crayon".
He placed himself at a corner of the door-way for her to pass him into the house, and doated on her cheek, her ear, and the softly dusky nape of her neck, where this way and that the little lighter-coloured irreclaimable curls running truant from the comb and the knot--curls, half-curls, root-curls, vine-ringlets, wedding-rings, fledgling feathers, tufts of down, blown wisps--waved or fell, waved over or up or involutedly, or strayed, loose and downward, in the form of small silken paws, hardly any of them much thicker than a crayon shading, cunninger than long round locks of gold to trick the heart.
The crayons here alluded to are employed rather for drawing than for writing, but they obviously belong to the class of pencils in their mode of action.
Vasari writes of a certain sixteenth century artist, that he was equally skillful in handling the stylus or the pen, black chalk or red crayon.
But it was an oddly se date room, full of old, comfortabl-looking furniture brightened with throw pillows and antimacassars and a few odditles--a brass peacock umbrella stand in one comer, an unused brown candle shaped like a turkey on a table, a strange tree-shaped light consmwted of artistically bound fiber-optic threads, a clumsy crayon drawing of two stick people, one large and one small, elegantly framed and hanging prominently on a wall.
The crayons that lay scattered on the desk were all shades of gray and white and black: charcoal, granite, ash gray, pearl, dirty snow.
The thought of the nation for to-morrow was tangibly represented only by that hut twenty feet square, with its few nourishing acres, most primitively furnished, a teacher of no training in the art of teaching, a few tons of coal in a shed, a box of crayons, and perhaps a map.
Shot that caseless ammo looked like wax crayons, plastic propellant molded around alloy flechettes like big nails.
When the last streamers of sunset had faded away he took another pack of stickers from his case, also a piece of crayon, and departed.
He dug a hand into the hiding-place, extracted the stickers and crayons, pocketed them.
A month before, this mountain had been only a name to us, but latterly we had been moving through a steadily thickening double row of pictures of it, done in oil, water, chromo, wood, steel, copper, crayon, and photography, and so it had at length become a shape to us--and a very distinct, decided, and familiar one, too.
Polly, clutching her soaking portfolio and box of crayons under her arm, wondered briefly what on earth Lady Belling ham would make of the arrival of two such drowned rats.
Rachael had brought her godchild a quite expensive set of pastel crayons and a large drawing pad with stiff white paper, it was Rachael's custom to bring Cecie a present when she visited, however frequently, or infrequently, she visited, and of course the child had grown to expect it, but what could you do?
So Thea was excluded, and Rachael went with Cecie into Cecie's room and the two sat at Cecie's little table, Cecie eagerly drawing with the new pastel crayons, chattering rapidly, and Rachael praised her skill at drawing (were these gorgeously colored zigzag figures animals?
Apparently no one has asked whether such a prankster was likely to have possessed drawing pens, colorful inks, lithographic or Chinagraph crayons, etching ground, and artist's paints and paper.
A small boat was hauled up beside the crates, propped against it a crayoned board: For Sale.