Tender(n.)
- One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
Tender(n.)
- A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.
Tender(n.)
- A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.
Tender(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.
Tender(v. t.)
- To offer in words; to present for acceptance.
Tender(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 by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest.
Tender(n.)
- 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.
Tender(n.)
- The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.
Tender(superl.)
- Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.
Tender(superl.)
- Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
Tender(superl.)
- Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.
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.
Tender(superl.)
- Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of.
Tender(superl.)
- Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.
Tender(superl.)
- Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.
Tender(superl.)
- Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.
Tender(superl.)
- Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel.