Roan

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Roan \Roan\ (r[=o]n), a. [F. rouan; cf. Sp. roano, ruano, It.
     rovano, roano.]
     1. Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray
        or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse.
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              Give my roan a drench.                --Shak.
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     2. Made of the leather called roan; as, roan binding.
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     {Roan antelope} (Zool.), a very large South African antelope
        ({Hippotragus equinus}). It has long sharp horns and a
        stiff bright brown mane. Called also {mahnya}, {equine
        antelope}, and {bastard gemsbok}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Roan \Roan\, n.
     1. The color of a roan horse; a roan color.
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     2. A roan horse.
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     3. A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc.,
        made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to
        imitate ungrained morocco. --DeColange.
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     {Roan tree}. (Bot.) See {Rowan tree}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  roan
       adj : (used of especially horses) having a brownish coat thickly
             sprinkled with white or gray; "a roan horse"
       n 1: a soft sheepskin leather that is colored and finished to
            resemble morocco; used in bookbinding
       2: horse having a roan coat

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  47 Moby Thesaurus words for "roan":
     Titian, adust, auburn, bay, bay-colored, bayard, brazen, bronze,
     bronze-colored, bronzed, brownish-red, buckskin, calico pony,
     castaneous, chestnut, chestnut-brown, copper, copper-colored,
     coppery, cupreous, dapple-gray, dun, ferruginous, foxy, gray,
     grizzle, henna, liver-brown, liver-colored, livid-brown, mahogany,
     paint, painted pony, piebald, pinto, reddish-brown, rubiginous,
     rufous, russet, russety, rust, rust-colored, rusty, skewbald,
     sorrel, sunburned, terra-cotta