Tender — Defs

01 n. One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

1.
One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
2.
A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.(Naut.)
3.
A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.

02 v. t. 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.

imp. & p. p. Tendered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tendering

1.
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.(Law)
2.
To offer in words; to present for acceptance.
“You see how all conditions, how all minds, . . . tender down Their services to Lord Timon.” — Shak.

03 n. 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 b…

1.
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.(Law)
2.
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.
“A free, unlimited tender of the gospel.” — South.
3.
The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.

Phrases & compounds

Legal tender — See under Legal.

Tender of issue — a form of words in a pleading, by which a party offers to refer the question raised upon it to the appropriate mode of decision.

04 a. Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.

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Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.
2.
Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
“Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our faces.” — L'Estrange.
3.
Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.
“The tender and delicate woman among you.” — Deut. xxviii. 56.
4.
Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.
“The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.” — James v. 11.

“I am choleric by my nature, and tender by my temper.” — Fuller.
5.
Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
“I love Valentine, Whose life's as tender to me as my soul!” — Shak.
6.
Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of.
“The civil authority should be tender of the honor of God and religion.” — Tillotson.
7.
Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.
“You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies, Will never do him good.” — Shak.
8.
Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.
9.
Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.
10.
Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel.(Naut.)

05 n. Regard; care; kind concern.

06 v. t. To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.