{ Cray (krā), Cray"er (-&etilde;r) }, n. See Crare. [Obs.]
Cray"fish (krā"f&ibreve;sh), n. (Zo÷l.) See Crawfish.
Cray"on (krā"?n), n. [F., a crayon, a lead pencil (crayon ContÚ ContÚ's pencil, i. e., one made a black compound invented by ContÚ), fr. craie chalk, L. creta; said to be, properly, Cretan earth, fr. Creta the island Crete. Cf. Cretaceous.] 1. An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.
Let no day pass over you . . . without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon.
Dryden.
&fist; The black crayon gives a deeper black than the lead pencil. This and the colored crayons are often called chalks. The red crayon is also called sanguine. See Chalk, and Sanguine.