DCHP-1 Online
moose-fly 
n. any one of several species of horsefly, especially Chrysops.
See also: bulldog fly
- 1849 In short . . . the closeness is often times terrible to bear, especially as it is accompanied with . . . the horse-fly, which seems to take the bite out of the flesh; and the large moose or speckled-winged fly.
- 1953 Further south, where they are never so numerous, they [bulldogs] are called horse-flies, or moose-flies.
- 1849 In short . . . the closeness is often times terrible to bear, especially as it is accompanied with . . . the horse-fly, which seems to take the bite out of the flesh; and the large moose or speckled-winged fly.