fourchette (for shet)

[F., dim. of fourche, a fork: see fork.] 1. In surg., an instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the operation of dividing Cro Fourché. the frenum.-2. In glove - making, the side of a finger, to which the front and back portions are sewed. Also forgette. Out of the parts left [from the pieces cut for hands) he cuts pieces for the thumbs and fourchettes or sides of the fingers usually pronounced "forgets." Chambers's Journal, quoted in Library Mag., July, 1886. 3. In ornith., the furcula or united clavicles of a bird; the merrythought or wishbone of a 2353 fowl.-4. In an at., the frenulum pudendi; the small thin fold just within the posterior commi ure of the vulva, separated therefrom by the fo a navicular is, and commonly ruptured in first parturition.