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Webster 1913 Edition


Roan

Roan

(rōn)
,
Adj.
[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.
Shakespeare
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
.

Roan

,
Noun.
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.)

Webster 1828 Edition


Roan

ROAN

,
Adj.
A roan horse is one that is of a bay, sorrel or dark color, with spots of gray or white thickly interspersed.

Definition 2024


Roan

Roan

See also: roan

Norwegian

Proper noun

Roan

  1. A municipality in Sør-Trøndelag, Norway.

roan

roan

See also: Roan

English

Adjective

roan (not comparable)

  1. Especially of a horse, having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in
  2. Made of the leather called roan.
    roan binding

Translations

Noun

roan (plural roans)

  1. An animal such as a horse that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.
  2. The color of such an animal.
  3. A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.
    • 1882, Leo de Colange, The American Encyclopaedia of Commerce, Manufactures, Commercial Law, and Finance (volume 2)
      Roan, a kind of leather used for shoes, slippers, and common bookbinding; prepared from sheep skins by tanning with sumach.

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Spanish

Verb

roan

  1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present subjunctive form of roer.
  2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes?) present subjunctive form of roer.
  3. Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of roer.