FIVES

fives

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Noun

fives

plural of five

fives pl (plural only)

(chiefly British) a ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall.

(poker slang) A pair of fives.

Source: Wiktionary

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Fives, n. pl.

Definition: 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.

Fives, n. Etym: [See Vives.]

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

FIVE

Five, a. Etym: [OE. fif, five, AS. fif, fife; akin to D. vijf, OS. fif, OHG. finf, funf, G. fünf, Icel. fimm, Sw. & Sw. Dan. fem, Goth. fimf, Lith. penki, W. pump, OIr. cóic, L. quinque, Gr. pa. Fifth, Cinque, Pentagon, Punch the drink, Quinary.]

Definition: Four and one added; one more than four.

Five nations (Ethnol.), a confederacy of the Huron-Iroquois Indians, consisting of five tribes: Mohawks, Onondagas, Cayugas, Oneidas, and Senecas. They inhabited the region which is now the State of new York.

Five, n.

1. The number next greater than four, and less than six; five units or objects. Five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Matt. xxv. 2.

2. A symbol representing this number, as 5, or V.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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