CRAWLY
Crawl"y (krl"), a.
Defn: Creepy. [Colloq.]
CRAY; CRAYER
Cray (kr), Cray"er (-r), n.
Defn: See Crare. [Obs.]
CRAYFISH
Cray"fish (kr"fsh), n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: See Crawfish.
CRAYON
Cray"on (kr"n), n. Etym: [F., a crayon, a lead pencil (crayon Conté
Conté's pencil, i. e., one made a black compound invented by Conté),
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.
Note: 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.
2. A crayon drawing.