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One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a
nurse. |
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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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A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of
fuel and water. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained. |
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Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure
hardship; immature; effeminate. |
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Susceptible of the softer passions, as love,
compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's
good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic. |
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Exciting kind concern; dear; precious. |
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Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with
of. |
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Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild. |
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Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of
the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender
expostulations; a tender strain. |
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Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as,
a tender subject. |
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Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a
vessel. |
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Regard; care; kind concern. |
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To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to
regard; to esteem; to value. |
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