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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

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

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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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Thesaurus Results for Roan:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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