Crossword-Solution: HORSEFLY 8 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

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Horsefly n. Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings
horses, and sucks their blood.
Horsefly n. The horse tick or forest fly (Hippobosca).

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A freak of the animal kingdom! 1 answer
Equestrian of sorts 1 answer
Equine pest 1 answer
Nag biter 1 answer
Pony pest 1 answer
Bloodsucking pest 2 answers
Animal twofer? 6 answers
Winged insect. 7 answers
BITING insect 16 answers
Gadfly 25 answers
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with HORSEFLY (5)

The common horsefly, which is so troublesome in the shady lanes of England, belongs to this same genus.
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1997
They stopped at the end of the field and carefully removed teddy from his place of prestige, but just at that moment a horsefly buzzing about caused Prince to stamp impatiently, and the big hoof came down on the boy’s foot.
Dennison Grant Robert Stead 2006
Beaming the roads of this picturesque region in search of victims is a most persistent and pugnacious species of fly; rollicking as the blue- bottle, and the veritable double of the green-head horsefly of the Western prairies, he combines the dash and impetuosity of the one with the ferocity and persistency of the other; but he is happily possessed of one redeeming feature not possessed by either of the above-mentioned and well-known insects of the Western world.
Around the World on a Bicycle V1 Thomas Stevens 2004
For the last few days, the weather had been tolerably cool, and we had not been much troubled with musquitoes; instead, however, we were persecuted severely by a very large greyish kind of horsefly, with a huge proboscis for sucking up the blood.
Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central Australia And Edward John Eyre 2004
She's got the nerve of a horsefly! The chunky one in the middle, his name's Sokai, but I call him Soaker for short.
The Belted Seas Arthur Colton 2004

Quotes with HORSEFLY (2)

A professionally trained actress should be a better liar, wouldn't you think? But no. I am pathetically underachieved in that area. I can think of a great lie. I'm plenty imaginative. But before the words are even out of my mouth, there's a weird tickle of unease in my armpits, a horsefly of guilt lands on the back of my neck, and before I can stop myself, that gassy little bubble of truth belches out.
Kristin Chenoweth A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages
CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler. MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing. CHORONZON: I am a horsefly, horse-stinging, hunter-throwing. MORPHEUS: I am a spider, fly-consuming, eight legged. CHORONZON: I am a snake, spider-devouring, posion-toothed. MORPHEUS: I am an ox, snake-crushing, heavy-footed. CHORONZON: I am an anthrax, butcher bacterium, warm-life destroying. MORPHEUS: I am a world, space-floating, life-nurturing. CHORONZON: I a…
Neil Gaiman Preludes & Nocturnes
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 11 times in crossword archives (1970–2008).