crayon

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A stick of colored wax, charcoal, or chalk, used for drawing.
2. n. A drawing made with one of these sticks.
3. v. To draw, color, or decorate with a stick of colored wax, charcoal, or chalk.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A pencil-shaped piece of colored clay, chalk, or charcoal, used for drawing upon paper. Crayons are made from certain mineral substances in their natural state, such as red or black chalk, but they are more commonly manufactured from a fine paste of chalk or pipeclay colored with various pigments, and consolidated by means of gum, wax, soap, etc. Crayons vary in hardness. The soft crayons and the half-hard are used through the medium of a stump, while the hard are used as a lead-pencil. See pastel.
2. n. A pencil made of a composition of soap, resin, wax, and lampblack, used for drawing upon lithographic stones.
3. n. One of the carbon-points in an electric lamp.
4. Drawn with crayons: as, a crayon sketch.
5. To sketch or draw with a crayon.
6. Hence To sketch in general; plan; commit to paper one's first thoughts.

Wiktionary

1. n. A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
2. v. To draw with a crayon.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.
2. n. A crayon drawing.
3. n. (Electricity) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
4. v. To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing
2. v. write, draw, or trace with a crayon