Dictionary 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 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 |