Difference between Horse and Mare

What is the difference between Horse and Mare?

Horse as a noun is a hoofed mammal (scientific name equus caballus). while Mare as a noun is an adult female horse.

Horse

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To provide with a horse. To frolic, to act mischieviously. Usually followed by "around".

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A hoofed mammal (scientific name Equus caballus). Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including the zebra or the ass. Cavalry soldiers (often capitalized). In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high with two handles on top. The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a man in a suit of armor and often one a horse, hence the nickname. A large person. A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; foot ropes. Heroin.

Mare

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An adult female horse.A foolish woman.A type of evil spirit thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep; a nightmare.(Shortening of ) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.A dark, large circular plain; a “sea”.On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.

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