crayon

Etymology

Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (“(diminutive)”), from Latin creta (“chalk, clay”), from crētus.

noun

1. A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
2. A colored pencil, a colouring pencil
3. (dated) A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.
   But on the wall hung two fine crayons, representing Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette — pictures which she recognized as having hung in the corridor of the Tuileries — and in front of them were burning two candles on a species of rude altar. 1885, Littell's Living Age, volume 167, page 187
4. (dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To draw with a crayon.