Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Vives"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vives \Vives\, n. [OF. vives, F. avives (cf. Sp. abivas, adiva)
fr. Ar. ad-dh[=i]ba. Cf. {Fives} vives.] (Far.)
A disease of brute animals, especially of horses, seated in
the glands under the ear, where a tumor is formed which
sometimes ends in suppuration.
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