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vives
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vives, n. [OF. vives, F. avives (cf. Sp. abivas, adiva) fr. Ar. ad-dhība. Cf. Fives vives.].
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. [1913 Webster]
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