FIVES

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; - - so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game. Smart. Fives court, a place for playing fives.

2.
n.

A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives. Shak.


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