( British) a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls

a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls

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

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

A kind of play with a ball, originally called hand- tennis; so named probably from its being usually played with five on each side, although others give different explanations, as that it is so called because the ball is struck with the hand or five fingers.

A disease of horses, resembling the strangles. Written also VIVES.

A game with a ball against the side of a building, similar to tennis; a disease of horses resembling the strangles.

But less correctly.

I explained that I must have paid out two hundred tens instead of fives. – A Canadian Bankclerk by J. P. Buschlen

But there shell, instead of round shot, met them, and men tasted death by fives and tens. – Aladdin O'Brien by Gouverneur Morris

In response to Crocker's gesture the Judge took up the box and rolled out two fives and a three- thirteen. – Eatin' Crow; and The Best Man In Garotte by Frank Harris

Also to prevent becoming too feeble we exercised our bodies by playing fives, throwing long bullets, wrestling, running, jumping, and other athletick exercises, in all of which your Father fully participated. – American Prisoners of the Revolution by Danske Dandridge

This silence was broken only by the barking of the French seventy- fives, in parts of the city hidden to us, the boom of the German guns in answer, and from overhead by the aeroplanes. – With the French in France and Salonika by Richard Harding Davis

Indeed I found all but three in the football field, and I know where they were, for I saw them playing at fives as I passed the court. – Dr. Jolliffe's Boys by Lewis Hough

So we had been playing catch with a fives ball. – Oswald Bastable and Others by Edith Nesbit

The people growing tired of this unprofitable game of fives, which threw everything into a state of sixes and sevens, clamoured so loudly to be reduced under one head, that permission was given them to elect a sovereign. – The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott Becket

So we will count the fives in sixty. – Peter and Polly in Winter by Rose Lucia

Tembarom rather lost his breath as he saw the number on two five- hundred- dollar bills, and of several hundreds, besides twenties, tens, and fives. – T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The bookmakers are offering fives against it. – The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd

I says, flashin' a big, wrist- size wad of tens and fives. – Shorty McCabe by Sewell Ford

In shoes, I am in the habit of wearing fives; in gloves, six and a half. – Humour of the North by Lawrence J. Burpee

Like the Agarwalas, the Oswals are divided into Bisa, Dasa and Pacha sections or twenties, tens and fives, according to the purity of their lineage. – The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II by R. V. Russell