• | One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a
nurse. |
• | A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them
with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. |
• | A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of
fuel and water. |
• | To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in
order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent
or debt. |
• | To offer in words; to present for acceptance. |
• | An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to
be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be
incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due,
or of the amount of a note, with interest. |
• | Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of
a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract. |
• | The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of
an obligation. |
• | Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not
firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit. |
• | Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained. |
• | Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure
hardship; immature; effeminate. |
• | Susceptible of the softer passions, as love,
compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's
good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic. |
• | Exciting kind concern; dear; precious. |
• | Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with
of. |
• | Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild. |
• | Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of
the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender
expostulations; a tender strain. |
• | Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as,
a tender subject. |
• | Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a
vessel. |
• | Regard; care; kind concern. |
• | To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to
regard; to esteem; to value. |