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▪ I. crayon, n.|ˈkreɪən|
Also 7 crion, cryon, 8 craon, craion.
[a. F. crayon, deriv. of craie:—L. crēta chalk.]
1. A pointed stick or pencil of coloured chalk or other material, for drawing.
1644Evelyn Diary (1871) 69 The prospect was so tempting that I designed it with my crayon. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 145/2 Crions [are] either White or Red Chalk cut into long pieces, and made sharp at the end to draw withall. 1719J. Richardson Art Criticism 174 If..what was done in Oyl is imitated with..Crayons. 1759Phil. Trans. LI. 185 He wrote his name..with a craion. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 142 Lithographic Crayons..may be used as pencils upon the stone. 1860Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. Pref. 6 note, Chalk débris, black and white, broken off the crayons with which Turner had drawn.
b. in crayon(s: usually said of a design drawn with a crayon or crayons; also an artist in crayons, etc. (Cf. in colours, in oils.)
1663Pepys Diary 15 May, Sir Thomas showed me his picture..in crayon in little, done exceedingly well. 1681Lond. Gaz. No. 1636/8 Another Picture in Red Cryon upon white Paper. 1758Johnson Idler No. 64 ⁋4 A wonderful performer in crayons. 1859L. Oliphant China & Japan II. viii. 181 Sketches of groups of horses in crayon.
2. transf. A drawing in crayons.
†b. fig. A work not carried out in detail, a ‘sketch’.
1662Evelyn Chalcogr. A v b, Collecting the Crayons, Prints, Designs. 1787T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 247 It is a poor crayon, which yourself..must fill up. 1883Pall Mall G. 12 May Supp., The gallery of large photographs and crayons.
3. A carbon point in an electric arc lamp.
4. attrib. and Comb., as crayon-box, crayon-board (see quot.), crayon-draft, crayon-holder, crayon-sketch.
1706Art of Painting (1744) 398 His crayon-drafts are also admirable. 1847Todd Cycl. Anat. III. 347/1 Instruments resembling crayon-holders. c1865J. Wylde in Circ. Sc. I. 191/2 Insert in each crayon-holder a piece of..charcoal. 1880Webster Supp., Crayon-board, thick drawing-paper, or cardboard for drawing. 1883G. Lloyd Ebb & Flow II. 98 Frank's original crayon sketch.
▪ II. ˈcrayon, v.
[a. F. crayonner (Cotgr. 1611), f. crayon: see prec.]
1. trans. To draw (something) with a crayon or crayons; to cover with drawing in crayons.
1662Evelyn Diary 10 Jan., When Mr. Cooper, the rare limner, was crayoning of the King's face and head. 1802M. Edgeworth Dun Wks. 1832 VI. 305 The floor crayoned with roses and myrtles, which the dancers' feet effaced. 1851Willis in W. Irving's Life & Lett. IV. 69 The flesh is most skilfully crayoned, the pose excellent.
2. fig. To sketch, ‘chalk out’.
1734Bolingbroke Lett. to Swift Apr. 12, The other [books] will soon follow; many of them are writ, or crayoned out. 1797Ann. Reg. 496 The plan which he had crayoned out. 1825New Monthly Mag. XIII. 500 This relic..has found a new kind of immortality, so charmingly crayoned in the page of a trans-atlantic writer.
▪ III. crayon
Obs.: see crathon. |