The difference between Horse and Mare

Horse as a noun (zoology):

Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus. A hoofed mammal, of the genus Equus, often used throughout history for riding and draft work. Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including the zebra or the ass. Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category). The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a horse. A large and sturdy person. A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.

Horse as a noun:

In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high, sometimes (pommel horse) with two handles on top . A frame with legs, used to support something.

Horse as a noun (nautical):

A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope. A breastband for a leadsman. An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon. A jackstay.

Horse as a noun (mining):

A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.

Horse as a noun (slang):

The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.

Horse as a noun (US):

An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or H.O.R.S.E. (see ).

Horse as a noun (dated, slang, among students):

A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.

Horse as a noun (dated, slang, among students):

horseplay; tomfoolery

Horse as a verb (intransitive):

To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)

Horse as a verb (transitive):

To provide with a horse.

Horse as a verb (obsolete):

To get on horseback.

Horse as a verb:

To sit astride of; to bestride.

Horse as a verb (of a male horse):

To copulate with (a mare).

Horse as a verb:

To take or carry on the back.

Horse as a verb:

To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.

Horse as a noun (uncountable, slang):

Heroin .

Mare as a noun:

An adult female horse.

Mare as a noun (UK, pejorative, slang):

A foolish woman.

Mare as a noun (obsolete, or, historical):

A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit.

Mare as a noun (UK, colloquial):

() A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.

Mare as a noun (planetology):

A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea.

Mare as a noun (planetology):

On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.