Vives

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  vives \vives\ (v[imac]vz), n. [OF. vives, F. avives (cf. Sp.
     abivas, adiva) fr. Ar. ad-dh[imac]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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