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Webster's English Dictionary

tender

n. [From Tend to attend. Cf. Attender.]1. One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse. ()

2. (Naut.) 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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3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. ()

v. t. [F. tendre to stretch, stretch out, reach, L. tendere. See Tend to move.]1. (Law) 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. ()

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.)

n. 1. (Law) 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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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. (Shak.)

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Legal tender. See under Legal. -- Tender of issue (Law), 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. Burrill. ()

a. [F. tendre, L. tener; probably akin to tenuis thin. See Thin.]1. 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. (Burke.)

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. (Bacon.)

10. (Naut.) Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel. ()

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n. [Cf. F. tendre.] Regard; care; kind concern. (Shak.)

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

For first, next after life, he tendered her good. (Spenser.)

Tender yourself more dearly. (Shak.)

To see a prince in want would move a miser's charity. Our western princes tendered his case, which they counted might be their own. (Fuller.)