NOUN (2)

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;


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. (used of especially horses) having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or grey;
- Example: "a roan horse"

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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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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WordNet (r) 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

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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