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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
fives
    n 1: a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front
         wall and two side walls

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fives \Fives\ (f[imac]vz), n. pl.
   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.
   [1913 Webster]

   Fives court, a place for playing fives.
      [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fives \Fives\, n. [See Vives.]
   A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives.
   --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]

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