[a. F. crayonner (Cotgr., 1611), f. crayon: see prec.]
1. trans. To draw (something) with a crayon or crayons; to cover with drawing in crayons.
1662. Evelyn, Diary, 10 Jan. When Mr. Cooper, the rare limner, was crayoning of the King’s face and head.
1802. Mar. Edgeworth, Dun, Wks. 1832, VI. 305. The floor crayoned with roses and myrtles, which the dancers’ feet effaced.
1851. Willis, in W. Irving’s Life & Lett., IV. 69. The flesh is most skilfully crayoned, the pose excellent.
2. fig. To sketch, ‘chalk out.’
1734. Bolingbroke, Lett. to Swift, April 12. The other [books] will soon follow; many of them are writ, or crayoned out.
1797. Ann. Reg., 496. The plan which he had crayoned out.
1825. New Monthly Mag., XIII. 500. This relic … has found a new kind of immortality, so charmingly crayoned in the page of a trans-atlantic writer.
Crayon, Obs.: see CRATHON.
