Crayon

(krā'un.) (Fr., from cra ie, chalk.] (Fine Arts.) A general name for all colored mineral substances, used in designing or painting in pas til; whether they have been beaten and reduced to a paste, or are used in their primitive consistence, after sawing or cutting them into long narrow slips. A porte-crayon is a metallic tube, in the form of a pencil, and split at both ends to serve as a holder for the chalk or crayon. Crayons is a term applied generally to chalk-drawings; as, a cartoon in crayons. [s. 241]