brochant (broshant)

[F., ppr. of brocher, stitch, etc.: see brocade.] In her., lying over and covering: said of any bearing which partly covers another. Also brouchant. brochan tite (brō-shan'tīt), n. [After Brochant de Villiers, a French mineralogist (1773-1840).] An emerald-green mineral consisting of hydrous sulphate of copper. The crystals are in thin rectangular and transparent tables. Broch at a (brō-kā'tä), n. pl. [NL., neut. pl. of broch at us, projecting (of teeth), having projecting teeth (of animals): see brochate.] In Blyth's cla ification of mammals, a tribe or suborder of his Diplodontia, corresponding to the Pachy dermata, herbivorous Cetacea, and Rodent i a of Cuvier: so called from usually having persistently growing teeth, as the tusks of the ele Shak ., T. N., ii. 5.]