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