Category:Roan

Roan, a. Etym: [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 (zoöl.), 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.

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.