| Roan 1. (a.) Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse. 2. (a.) Made of the leather called roan; as, roan binding. 3. (n.) The color of a roan horse; a roan color. 4. (n.) A roan horse. 5. (n.) A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco. Thesaurus Entries 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 |