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Crayon [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A general name for all colored stones, earths, or other minerals and substances, used in designing or painting in pastel or paste, whether they have been beaten and reduced to paste, or are used in their primitive consistence. Red crayons are made of blood-stone or red chalk; black ones, of charcoal or black lead.

2. A kind of pencil, or roll of paste, to draw lines with.

3. A drawing or design done with a pencil or crayon

Crayon [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.

2. A crayon drawing.

3. A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

Crayon [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.

Crayon Encyclopedia Britannica

CRAYON, a coloured material for drawing, employed generally in the form of pencils, but sometimes also as a powder, and consisting of native earthy and stony friable substances, or of artificially prepared mixtures of a base uf pipe or China clay with Prussian blue, orpiment vermilion, umber, and other pigments. Calcined gypsum, talc, and compounds of magnesium, bismuth, and lead are occasionally used as bases. The required shades of tints are obtained by adding varying amounts of colouring matter to equal quantities of the base. The ingredients of crayons or pastils are made into a paste with gum, turpentine, or alcoholic solution of shellac, and pιdverized as finely as possible in a mill, which subjects them repeatedly to the action of a revolving cast-iron grinder. The paste is introduced into a copper cylinder, closed at one end by a plate pierced with holes of the diameter of the. crayons to be made. Through these it is forced by means of a piston, and the vermicular pieces obtained are then cut into the required lengths, and dried in a furnace at a gentle heat. Black crayons may be manufactured from a mixture of one part of lamp-black with about two-thirds of its bulk of clay; red crayons from powdered and elutriated haematite worked up into a paste with gum arabic and a little soap. White crayons are commonly formed by sawing chalk of good quality into convenient shapes. Mixtures of soap, wax, and lampblack are employed for lithographic crayons or chalks. The late well-known zoological lithographer, George Ford, employed chalks made after the following receipt :— [table]...

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 6, p. 555
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Crayon-painting [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The act or art of drawing with crayons.

Crayoned [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Crayon

Crayoning [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Crayon