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Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidæ, that stings horses, and sucks their blood.

ted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two- winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies. [Written also breese and brize.]

A small breeze or horsefly. [North of Eng. & Scot.] Jamieson.

A genus of dipterous insects including the horsefly or horse tick. -- Hip`po*bos"can, a.

ca equina), which troubles horses by biting them, and sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, horse louse, and forest fly. -- Horse vetch (Bot.), a plant of the genus Hippocrepis (H. comosa), cultivated for the beauty of its flowers; -- called also horsehoe vetch, from the peculiar shape of its pods. -- Iron ho…