noun regard; care; kind concern.
2. tender ·superl unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.
3. tender ·superl exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
4. tender ·vt to offer in words; to present for acceptance.
5. tender ·superl sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
6. tender ·superl careful to save inviolate, or not to injure;
with of.
7. tender ·superl heeling over too easily when under sail;
said of a vessel.
8. tender ·noun one who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
9. tender ·noun a car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.
10. tender ·superl apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.
11. tender ·superl physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.
12. tender ·noun the thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.
13. tender ·vt to have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.
14. tender ·superl easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.
15. 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.