cray, craier, crayer

[Old Fr. craier.] [CRARE.] A kind of slow-sailing coasting ve el. "A miracle it was to see them grown To ships, and barks, with gallies, bulks, and crayes ." Harrington: Ariost . , xxxix. st. 28. *crāy-fer-, 8. [Etym. doubtful.] A plant, Pulmonaria officinal is . ( Grete .) crây-fish, s . [CRAWFISH.] 1. Zool., .: Astacus flu via til is . "The cure of the muriatic and ammoniac saltne requires slimy meats; as snails, tortoises, jellies, and crayfishes."-Floyer. †2. Bot.: A plant, Doronicum Pardalianches. cray-on, s. [Fr., from craie; Lat. creta =chalk.] 1. Fine arts: (1) A colored pencil consisting of a cylinder of fine pipe-clay colored with a pigment. Black crayons are colored with plumbago, or made of Italian black chalk. A white crayon is a cylinder of chalk, common in Europe and America. Red chalk is found in France. The holder is a porte-crayon. Crayons are said to have been made in France in 1422. It is hard to say how long ago charcoal, chalk, and ocherous earths were used. ( Knight .) "Let no day pa over you without drawing a line; that is to say, without working, without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon ."-Dryden: Dufres. (2) A drawing or design done with crayons. 2. Lithography : A composition formed as a pen cil, and used for drawing upon lithographic stones. It is of a soapy nature, consisting of soap, wax, resins, and lamp-black, melted, and sometimes burned, together. ( Knight .)