Vives

Definitions

1. A village and commune of Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitania, France, historically part of Northern Catalonia.
2. A disease of animals, especially horses, based in the glands under the ear, where a tumour is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.
   obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The Vives, like⟳ the strangles, is most incident to young horses, and usually proceeds from the same causes, such as catching cold, being over-heated, or over-worked, about the time of shedding their teeth.”

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