cray·on (krā'ŏn', -ən)
n.

1. A stick of colored wax, charcoal, or chalk, used for drawing.
2. A drawing made with one of these sticks.

tr.v., -oned, -on·ing, -ons.
To draw, color, or decorate with a stick of colored wax, charcoal, or chalk.

[French, diminutive of craie, chalk, from Latin crēta.]

crayonist cray'on·ist (-ə-nĭst) or cray'on·er (-ə-nər) n.

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