A headmistress is the female principal of a school, particularly a private school. You might need to ask the headmistress of your high school for a college recommendation. Private schools and prep schools often call the person in charge a headmaste if he’s a man and a headmistress if she’s a woman.

headmaster

The word ‘headmistress’ refers to ‘a woman who is the head of a school’. This word refers to the feminine counterpart of ‘headmaster’. So, this is a feminine gender noun.

From Old to Modern English The Middle English word wicche did not differentiate between feminine and masculine, however the masculine meaning became less common in Standard English, being replaced by words like “wizard” and “warlock”. The modern spelling witch with the medial ‘t’ first appears in the 16th century.

A niece is female, while a nephew is male, with the term nibling used in place of the gender specific niece and nephew in some specialist literature.

A mare is an adult female horse or other equine. An uncastrated adult male horse is called a stallion and a castrated male is a gelding. Occasionally, the term “horse” is used to designate only a male horse.

A foal is an equine up to one year old; this term is used mainly for horses. More specific terms are colt for a male foal and filly for a female foal, and are used until the horse is three or four. When the foal is nursing from its dam (mother), it may also be called a “suckling”. A newborn horse is “foaled”.

These horses generally compete on the flat and the best of them will be used for breeding after their racing career. Filly – A female horse aged four years or younger is known as a filly. There are many flat races which are open only to fillies, as they would often be at a disadvantage if asked to run against colts.

Horse genders defined

• Horse names.
• Colt: A male horse under four years old.
• Gelding: A castrated male horse.
• Stallion: A male horse which has not been castrated.
• Filly: A female horse under four years old.
• Mare: An adult female horse.

The canter and gallop are variations on the fastest gait that can be performed by a horse or other equine. The canter is a controlled three-beat gait, while the gallop is a faster, four-beat variation of the same gait.

Guinness World Record recognizes Winning Brew, a Thoroughbred, as the fastest horse in the world at 43.97 mph. Horses have survived on this planet because of their ability to run and communicate.

Equestrianism (from Latin equester, equestr-, equus, ‘horseman’, ‘horse’), commonly known as horse riding (British English) or horseback riding (American English), includes the disciplines of riding, driving, and vaulting.

Galloping involves the horse driving themselves forward with all four feet leaving the ground. It is a very fast smooth gait, and requires an athletic horse and rider. It averages between twenty five and thirty miles per hour and can only be sustained for short distances.

88 km/hMaximum, Sprint

45 km/hMaximum, Running

Canter

Gallop Although the gallop or run appears to be only a faster canter, it is in fact a different gait containing four beats. Like the canter, the gallop also has a right and left lead.

Until the 1870s, no one was sure whether all the hooves of a trotting horse left the ground at once. Look closely at the fifth picture in the sequence. What can you tell? In the gallop, four hooves leave the ground at the same time, when the horse’s hind legs swing near the front legs.

Gaited horses are horse breeds that have selective breeding for natural gaited tendencies, that is, the ability to perform one of the smooth-to-ride, intermediate speed, four-beat horse gaits, collectively referred to as ambling gaits.

Here are seven horse breeds that are often touted as ideal for novice riders…

• Morgan Horse.
• Friesian Horse.
• Icelandic Horse.
• American Quarter Horse.
• Tennessee Walking Horse.
• Connemara Pony.
• Welsh Cob.

Beyond their unusual beauty, Paints are prized for their calm, friendly, easy going temperament. These are relaxed, highly social horses, with natural intelligence that makes them easy and rewarding to train. Paint Horses are known to be strong, fast, and agile.