A gadfly: a name given to various dipterous insects, esp. of the genera Œstrus (botfly, n.) and Tabanus, which annoy horses and cattle. archaic or di…

A gadfly, horsefly; also applied to a gnat.

One of various dipterous insects troublesome to horses, as the horse-tick (family Hippoboscidæ), the breeze or gadfly (Tabanidæ), the bot-fly (Œstridæ…

Any of various parasitic flies which cause great agitation in the livestock on which they deposit eggs or inflict bites; = gadfly, n. 1. Also figur…

Any of various parasitic flies which cause great agitation in the livestock on which they deposit eggs or inflict bites; esp. a botfly (family Oest…

A gadfly; = breeze, n.1

A gadfly.

= 1.

Breese, gadfly; = brimse, n.

a gadfly or botfly affecting cattle.

The gadfly.

A gadfly.

A gadfly. Cf. breeze, n.1 1a.

A gadfly; = breeze, n.1 1a.

? = gad-bee, n.

A gadfly. Now rare.

(a) U.S. a horsefly; (b) a midge.

(a) (more fully ox-warble fly) either of two flies of the family Oestridae, Hypoderma bovis and H. lineatum, whose larvae live under the skin of…

Australian. Any horsefly of the family Tabanidae.