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  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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