1. [n]  writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing
2. [v]  write, draw, or trace with a crayon

1. \Cray"on\ (kr?"?n), n. [F., a crayon, a lead pencil
   (crayon Cont['e] Cont['e]'s pencil, i. e., one made a black
   compound invented by Cont['e]), 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.
   3. (Electricity) A pencil of carbon used in producing
      electric light.
   {Crayon board}, cardboard with a surface prepared for crayon
      drawing.
   {Crayon drawing}, the act or art of drawing with crayons; a
      drawing made with crayons.
   

2. \Cray"on\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crayoned} (-?nd); p. pr.
   & vb. n. {Crayoning}.] [Cf. F. crayonner.]
   To sketch, as with a crayon; to sketch or plan.
         He soon afterwards composed that discourse, conformably
         to the plan which he had crayoned out.   --Malone.
   

1. Someone who works on Cray supercomputers. More specifically, it implies a programmer, probably of the CDC ilk, probably male, and almost certainly wearing a tie (irrespective of gender). Systems types who have a Unix background tend not to be described as crayons.

2. A computron that participates only in number crunching.

3. A unit of computational power equal to that of a single Cray-1. There is a standard joke about this usage that derives from an old Crayola crayon promotional gimmick: When you buy 64 crayons you get a free sharpener.

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