Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.