Fives
an English game at ball, in which the ball is struck against a wall.
It is played either in close or in open courts, of various shapes and proportions. The game is known as hand-fives or bat-fives, according as the ball is struck by the open hand or a small wooden bat. Also the first, or hand, as having five fingers. Also a disease in horses, resembling the staggers, and consisting of an inflammation of the parotid glands; written also vives.