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 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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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.
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