Bible Dictionaries
Horsefly

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The horse tick or forest fly (Hippobosca).

(2):

(n.) Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Horsefly'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​h/horsefly.html. 1828.