roan : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: roan	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for roan
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
roan adj (used of especially horses) having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or grey; "a roan horse" n a soft sheepskin leather that is colored and finished to resemble morocco; used in bookbinding a horse having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Roan \Roan\, n. 1. The color of a roan horse; a roan color. 2. A roan horse. 3. A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco. --DeColange. {Roan tree}. (Bot.) See {Rowan tree}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Roan \Roan\, 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. Give my roan a drench. --Shak. 2. Made of the leather called roan; as, roan binding. {Roan antelope} (Zo[94]l.), 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}.