| • | 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. |
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