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.-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.-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.-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.-regard; care; kind concern.-to have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.