[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tender \ten"der\, n.
   1. law 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.
      1913 webster

   note: to constitute a legal tender, such money must be
         offered as the law prescribes. so also the tender must
         be at the time and place where the rent or debt ought
         to be paid, and it must be to the full amount due.
         1913 webster

   2. 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.
      1913 webster

            a free, unlimited tender of the gospel. --south.
      1913 webster

   3. the thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of
      an obligation. --shak.
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      1913 webster

   legal tender. see under legal.

   tender of issue law, a form of words in a pleading, by
      which a party offers to refer the question raised upon it
      to the appropriate mode of decision. --burrill.
      1913 webster
see also:
legal tender legal tender of issue 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tender \tend"er\, n. from tend to attend. cf. attender.
   1. one who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing;
      a nurse.
      1913 webster

   2. naut. 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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   3. a car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of
      fuel and water.
      1913 webster
see also:
tend attender 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tender \ten"der\, v. t. imp.  p. p. tendered; p. pr.  vb.
   n. tendering. f. tendre to stretch, stretch out, reach,
   l. tendere. see tend to move.
   1. law 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.
      1913 webster

   2. to offer in words; to present for acceptance.
      1913 webster

            you see how all conditions, how all minds, . . .
            tender down
            their services to lord timon.         --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
tendered tendering tend 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tender \ten"der\, n. cf. f. tendre.
   regard; care; kind concern. obs. --shak.
   1913 webster

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tender \ten"der\, v. t.
   to have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to
   esteem; to value. obs.
   1913 webster

         for first, next after life, he tendered her good.
                                                  --spenser.
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         tender yourself more dearly.             --shak.
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         to see a prince in want would move a miser's charity.
         our western princes tendered his case, which they
         counted might be their own.              --fuller.
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[6] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tender \ten"der\, a. compar. tenderer; superl. tenderest.
   f. tendre, l. tener; probably akin to tenuis thin. see
   thin.
   1. easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or
      hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender
      fruit.
      1913 webster

   2. sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
      1913 webster

            our bodies are not naturally more tender than our
            faces.                                --l'estrange.
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   3. physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship;
      immature; effeminate.
      1913 webster

            the tender and delicate woman among you. --deut.
                                                  xxviii. 56.
      1913 webster

   4. susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion,
      kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's
      good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor;
      sympathetic.
      1913 webster

            the lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
                                                  --james v. 11.
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            i am choleric by my nature, and tender by my temper.
                                                  --fuller.
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   5. exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
      1913 webster

            i love valentine,
            whose life's as tender to me as my soul --shak.
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   6. careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of.
      "tender of property." --burke.
      1913 webster

            the civil authority should be tender of the honor of
            god and religion.                     --tillotson.
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   7. unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.
      1913 webster

            you, that are thus so tender o'er his follies,
            will never do him good.               --shak.
      1913 webster

   8. adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the
      softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender
      expostulations; a tender strain.
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   9. apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a
      tender subject. "things that are tender and unpleasing."
      --bacon.
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   10. naut. heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said
       of a vessel.
       1913 webster

   note: tender is sometimes used in the formation of
         self-explaining compounds; as, tender-footed,
         tender-looking, tender-minded, tender-mouthed, and the
         like.
         1913 webster

   syn: delicate; effeminate; soft; sensitive; compassionate;
        kind; humane; merciful; pitiful.
        1913 webster
see also:
tenderer tenderest thin 

[7] : WordNet (r) 2.0

tender
     adj 1: given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality; "a tender
            heart"; "a tender smile"; "tender loving care";
            "tender memories"; "a tender mother" ant: tough
     2: hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw" syn: sensitive, sore
     3: susceptible to physical or emotional injury; "at a tender
        age" syn: vulnerable
     4: having or displaying warmth or affection; "affectionate
        children"; "caring parents"; "a fond embrace"; "fond of
        his nephew"; "a tender glance"; "a warm embrace" syn: affectionate,
         caring, fond, lovesome, warm
     5: easy to cut or chew; "tender beef" ant: tough
     6: physically untoughened; "tender feet" syn: untoughened
        ant: tough
     7: used of boats inclined to heel over easily under sail
        syn: crank, cranky, tippy
     8: of plants not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing
        condition; "tender green shoots"
     n 1: something used as an official medium of payment syn: legal
          tender
     2: someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of
        another syn: attendant, attender
     3: a formal proposal to buy at a specified price syn: bid
     4: car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
     5: a boat for communication between ship and shore syn: ship's
        boat, pinnace, cutter
     6: ship that usually provides supplies to other ships syn: supply
        ship
     v 1: offer or present for acceptance
     2: propose a payment; "the swiss dealer offered $2 million for
        the painting" syn: offer, bid
     3: make a tender of; in legal settlements
     4: make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or
        applying a tenderizer; "tenderize meat" syn: tenderize,
         tenderise
see also:
tough sensitive sore vulnerable affectionate caring 
fond lovesome warm untoughened crank 
cranky tippy legal tender attendant attender 
bid ship's boat pinnace cutter supply ship 
offer tenderize tenderise 

[8] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

407 moby thesaurus words for "tender":
   christian, christlike, christly, ganymede, hebe, pullman,
   pullman car, accepting, accord, aching, administer, adoring,
   advance, affectionate, afford, agonizing, ailing, airline hostess,
   airline stewardess, algetic, allergic, allot, allow, amatory,
   amorous, anaphylactic, angry, attendant, attentive, award,
   baggage car, batman, bellboy, bellhop, bellman, benevolent, benign,
   benignant, bestow, bestow on, bid, bills, bleeding, boat, bold,
   bootblack, boots, boxcar, brotherly, budding, burning, cabin boy,
   caboose, caddie, callow, car, careful, caring, carriage, cash,
   cautious, chafed, chair car, charitable, chewable, chore boy,
   circumspect, clement, coach, coal car, commiserative, communicate,
   compassionate, compensate, compensation, complaisant, condolent,
   confer, conjugal, considerate, copyboy, covered waggon, creamy,
   cupbearer, curious, currency, dainty, dangerous, day coach, deal,
   deal out, decent, delicate, demonstrative, devoted, dewy,
   difficult, diner, dinghy, dining car, dish out, dispense, dole,
   dole out, donate, drawing room, easy, easygoing, eatable, edible,
   eggshell, emotionable, emotional, empathetic, empathic, errand boy,
   errand girl, extend, faithful, fee, feeble, feeling, festering,
   fiery, filial, fit for sea, flat, flatcar, fond, footboy,
   forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, fork out, fragile, frail,
   fraternal, galled, gentle, gift, gift with, gig, give, give freely,
   give out, gloss, gofer, gondola, good, good-natured, goosy,
   gracious, grant, green, growing, guerdon, hand out, heap,
   heartfelt, heedful, help to, hold forth, hold out, hostess, human,
   humane, hurting, husbandly, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic,
   hypersensitive, immature, impart, impassioned, impressionable,
   impubic, indemnify, inexperienced, infirm, inflamed, ingenuous,
   innocent, intact, iridescent, irritable, irritated, issue, itchy,
   juicy, juvenile, kind, kindhearted, kindly, kindly-disposed,
   languishing, launch, lavish, lax, lenient, let have, light, local,
   lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, luggage van, mail car,
   mail van, maternal, maudlin, mawkish, mellow, mellowy, melting,
   merciful, mete, mete out, mild, mindful, minor, moderate,
   mollified, money, mother-of-pearl, moving, nacreous, naive,
   nervous, new, new-fledged, nice, nonresistive, nonrigid, offer,
   office boy, office girl, opalescent, orderly, overrefined,
   oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, page, painful, palace car,
   pale, parental, parlor car, passenger car, passible, passionate,
   pastel, paternal, patient, patinaed, pay, pay by installments,
   pay on, payment, pearly, pitying, poignant, pose, pour, prefer,
   prepay, present, presentation, prickly, proffer, proposal, propose,
   proposition, provocative, purpose, put forward, put up, quiet,
   railway car, rain, rankling, raw, receptive, recompense, red,
   reefer, refined, refrigerator car, regardful, remit, remunerate,
   render, responsive, reward, ripening, romantic, roomette, ruthful,
   sad, salary, sappy, satisfy, sea-kindly, seaworthy, semigloss,
   sensible, sensitive, sentimental, serve, set before, shaky,
   shell out, shower, sickly, simple, skiff, skittish, sleeper, slip,
   smarting, smoker, smoking car, snow, snug, sober, soft,
   soft as putty, soft-colored, soft-hued, softened, softhearted,
   solicitous, somber, soothing, sore, soul-stirring, specie, squire,
   steward, stewardess, stiff, stirring, stockcar, subdued, submit,
   subtle, suggest, supersensitive, susceptible, sweet, sympathetic,
   sympathizing, tactful, tank, tenderhearted, tetchy, thin-skinned,
   thoughtful, ticklish, tingling, tolerant, touching, touchy,
   trainbearer, tricky, troublesome, truck, unadult, underage,
   understanding, undeveloped, unfledged, unformed, uninitiated,
   unlicked, unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, unsound, unstable,
   untrained, unwell, usher, uxorious, van, vehicle, vernal, virginal,
   vouchsafe, vulnerable, waggon, wagon, warm, warm-hearted,
   warmhearted, waterproof, watertight, weak, weatherly, whisper-soft,
   wifely, yeoman, yield, yielding, young, youthful

[9] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

tender, contracts, pleadings. a tender is an offer to do or perform an act 
which the party offering, is bound to perform to the party to whom the offer 
is made. 
     2. a tender may be of money or of specific articles; these will be 
separately considered. sec. 1. of the lender of money. to make la valid 
tender the following requisites are necessary: 1. it must be made by a 
person capable of paying: for if it be made by a stranger without the 
consent of the debtor, it will be insufficient. cro. eliz. 48, 132; 2 m.  
s. 86; co. lit. 206. 
     3.-2. it must be made to the creditor having capacity to receive it, or 
to his authorized agent. 1 camp. 477; dougl. 632; 5 taunt. 307; s. c. 1 
marsh. 55; 6 esp. 95; 3 t. r. 683; 14 serg.  rawle, 307; 1 nev.  m. 398; 
s. c. 28 e. c. l. r. 324; 4 b.  c. 29 s. c. 10 e. c. l. r. 272; 3 c.  p. 
453 s. c. 14 e. c. l. r. 386; 1 m.  w. 310; m.  m. 238; 1 esp. r. 349 1 c. 
 p. 365 
     4.-3. the whole sum due must be offered, in the lawful coin of the 
united states, or foreign coin made current by law; 2 n.  m. 519; and the 
offer must be unqualified by any circumstance whatever. 2 t. r. 305; 1 
campb. 131; 3 campb. 70; 6 taunt. 336; 3 esp. c. 91; stark. ev. pt. 4, page 
1392, n. g; 4 campb. 156; 2 campb. 21; 1 m.  w. 310. but a tender in bank 
notes, if not objected to on that account, will be good. 3 t. r. 554; 2 b.  
p. 526; 1 leigh's n. p. c. 1, s. 20; 9 pick. 539; see 2 caines, 116; 13 
mass. 235; 4 n. h. rep. 296; 10 wheat 333. but in such case, the amount 
tendered must be what is due exactly, for a tender of a five dollar note, 
demanding change, would not be a good tender of four dollars. 3 campb. r. 
70; 6 taunt. r. 336; 2 esp. r. 710; 2 d.  r. 305; s. c. 16 e. c. l. r. 87. 
and a tender was held good when made by a check contained in a letter, 
requesting a receipt in return which the plaintiff sent back demanding a 
larger sum, without objecting to the nature of the tender. 8 d. p. c. 442. 
when stock is to be tendered, everything must be done by the debtor to 
enable him to transfer it, but it is not absolutely requisite that it should 
be transferred. str. 504, 533, 579. 
     5.-4. if a term had been stipulated in favor of a creditor, it must be 
expired; the offer should be made at the time agreed upon for the 
performance of the contract if made afterwards, it only goes in mitigation 
of damages, provided it be made before suit brought. 7 taunt. 487; 8 east, 
r. 168; 5 taunt. 240; 1 saund. 33 a, note 2. the tender ought to be made 
before daylight is entirely gone. 7 greenl. 31. 
     6.-5. the condition on which the debt was contracted must be fulfilled. 
     7.-6. the tender must be made at the place agreed upon for the payment, 
or, if there be no place appointed for that purpose, then to the creditor or 
his authorized agent. 8 john. 474; lit. sel. cas. 132; bac. ab. h.t. c. 
     8. when a tender has been properly made, it is a complete defence to 
the action but the benefit of a tender is lost, if the creditor afterwards 
demand the thing due from the debtor, and the latter refuse to pay it. 
kirby, 293. 
     9.-sec. 2. of the tender of specific articles. it is a rule that 
specific articles maybe tendered at some particular place, and not, like 
money, to the person of the creditor wherever found. when no place is 
expressly mentioned in the contract, the place of delivery is to be 
ascertained by the intent of the parties, to be collected from the nature of 
the case and its circumstances. if, for example, the contract is for 
delivery of goods from the seller to the buyer on demand, the former being 
the manufacturer of the goods or a dealer in them, no place being 
particularly named, the manufactory or store of the seller will be 
considered as the place intended, and a tender there will be sufficient. 
when the specific articles are at another place at the time of sale, that 
will be the place of delivery. 2 greenl. ev. sec. 609 4 wend. 377; 2 applet. 
325. 
     10. when the goods are cumbrous, and the place of delivery is not 
designated, nor to be inferred from the circumstances, it is presumed that 
it was intended that they should be delivered at any place which the 
creditor might reasonably appoint; if the creditor refuses, or names an 
unreasonable place, the debtor may select a proper place, and having given 
notice to the creditor, deliver the goods there. 2 kent, comm. 507; 1 
greenl. 120; chip. on contr. 51 13 wend. 95; 2 greenl. ev. sec. 610. vide, 
generally, 20 vin., ab. 177; bac. ab. h.t.; 1 sell. 314; com. dig. action 
upon the case upon assumpsit, h 8 condition, l 4 pleader, 2 g 2-2 w, 28,49-3 
k 23-3 m 36; chipm, on contr. 31, 74; ayl. pand. b. 4, t. 29; 7 greenl. 31 
bouv. inst. index, h.t. 

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