sb. pl. Also 6 vyves, 6–8 viues, 7 uiues, vies. [Aphetic form of AVIVES. Cf. FIVES1, VEES1, and YVES.] Hard swellings of the submaxillary glands of a horse; the presence of these regarded as a specific morbid condition in a horse.
1523. Fitzherb., Husb., § 91. The viues is a sorance vnder a horse ere, bytwene the ouer ende of the chall-bones and the necke, and are rounde knottes bytwene the skyn and the fleshe.
1566. Blundevil, Horses, IV. xxxvi. (1580), 17 b. The Viues be certaine kirnels growing vnder the horses eare.
1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., III. (1586), 123. There is a disease that is common in Horses, called the Viues.
1639. T. de Gray, Compl. Horsem., 79. It is a disease which growes under the eares, and secundum vulgus it is called the fives or vives.
1681. Lond. Gaz., No. 1605/4. One a Bay Horse above thirteen hands high,… has been burned in the Head for the Vies.
c. 1720. W. Gibson, Farrier’s Dispens., xiii. (1734), 263. This is particularly of service in the Vives and Strangles.
1754. Bartlet, Gentlem. Farriery, 104. The vives or ives differs from the strangles only in this, that the swelling of the kernels under the ears of the horse … seldom gather.
1831. Youatt, Horse, 149. Several distinct kernels are to be felt under the jaw…. The farriers call them vives.
