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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Roan a.
 1. Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse.
    Give my roan a drench.   --Shak.
 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.