Definition of "crayon" [cray•on]

• A stick of colored wax, charcoal, or chalk, used for drawing. (noun)
• A drawing made with one of these sticks. (noun)
• To draw, color, or decorate with a stick of colored wax, charcoal, or chalk. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "You can search for and retrieve all files on your computer that contain the word crayon."
• "They could hold up a slogan written in crayon with backwards ‘Rs’ and nobody would be the wiser."
• "Using the first crayon from a new box always gave me a slight pain."