crayon

crayon
    n 1: writing implement consisting of a colored stick of
         composition wax used for writing and drawing [syn:
         {crayon}, {wax crayon}]
    v 1: write, draw, or trace with a crayon
    

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.
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            Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some
            strokes of the pencil or the crayon.  --Dryden.
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   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}.
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   2. A crayon drawing.
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   3. (Electricity) A pencil of carbon used in producing
      electric light.
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   {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.
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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.
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         He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably
         to the plan which he had crayoned out.   --Malone.
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crayon

   1. Someone who works on {Cray} {supercomputers}.  More
   specifically, it implies a programmer, probably of the {CDC}
   ilk, probably male, and almost certainly wearing a tie
   (irrespective of gender).  Systems types who have a {Unix}
   background tend not to be described as crayons.

   2. A {computron} that participates only in {number crunching}.

   3. A unit of computational power equal to that of a single
   {Cray-1}.  There is a standard joke about this usage that
   derives from an old Crayola crayon promotional gimmick: When
   you buy 64 crayons you get a free sharpener.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1994-10-13)
    

59 Moby Thesaurus words for "crayon":
      air brush, art paper, black and white, brouillon, brush,
      camera lucida, camera obscura, canvas, cartoon, chalk, charcoal,
      charcoal drawing, chiaroscuro, delineation, design, diagram,
      doodle, draft, drawing, drawing paper, drawing pencil, drier,
      easel, ebauche, esquisse, fixative, graph, ground, lay figure,
      line drawing, maulstick, medium, paint, paintbrush, palette,
      palette knife, pastel, pen-and-ink, pencil, pencil drawing,
      pigments, rough copy, rough draft, rough outline, scratchboard,
      siccative, silhouette, silver-print drawing, sinopia, sketch,
      sketchbook, sketchpad, spatula, spray gun, study, stump, tracing,
      varnish, vignette