Meaning of Vives | Babel Free

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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