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Ray; beam. [Obs.] Spenser.

Darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out.

linders. Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon. Dryden.

A metallic handle with a clasp for holding a crayon.

emy; the Academy of Music. Academy figure (Paint.), a drawing usually half life-size, in crayon or pencil, after a nude model.

hich writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools.

ension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See Crayon. Black chalk, a mineral of a bluish color, of a slaty texture, and soiling the fingers when handled; a variety of argillaceous slate. -- By a long chalk, by a long way; by many degrees. [Slang] Lowell. -- Chalk drawing (Fi…

a alpina). -- Mountain soap (Min.), a soft earthy mineral, of a brownish color, used in crayon painting; saxonite. -- Mountain sorrel (Bot.), a low perennial plant (Oxyria digyna with rounded kidney-form leaves, and small greenish flowers, found in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and in high northern latitudes.…

A crayon made of a paste composed of a color ground with gum water. [Sometimes incorrectly written pastil.] "Charming heads in pastel." W. Black.

See Pastel, a crayon.

a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape. I went to Putney . . . to take prospects in crayon. Evelyn.

Red crayon. See the Note under Crayon, 1.

A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

ver lighty, as a painting, or a drawing, with a thin wash of opaque color, or with color-crayon dust rubbed on with the stump, or to make any similar additions to the work, so as to produce a softened effect.

In crayon drawing, the use of the stump.

ther or paper, cut to a point, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc., in powder.