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