Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

vives

vives (vīvz) , noun

[Old French vives, French avives (compare Sp. abivas, adiva) from Arabic ad-dhība. Compare Fives vives.]

(Farriery) 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.