n. 蜡笔, 蜡笔画

vt. 以蜡笔作画

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}.]
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.


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.