| Tender (tender) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Tend"er |
| [From Tend to attend.
Cf. Attender.] |
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.
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| Tender (tender) |
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| v. t. | (?) |
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| Ten"der |
| [imp. *** p.
p. Tendered (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n.
Tendering.] [F. tendre to stretch, stretch out, reach, L.
tendere. See Tend to move.] |
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.
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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.
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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.
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| Tender (tender) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Ten"der |
| [Cf. F. tendre.] |
Regard; care; kind concern.
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| Tender (tender) |
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| v. t. | |
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| Ten"der |
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To have a care of; to be
tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.
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