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To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.

One who, or that which, suspends; esp., one of a pair of straps or braces worn over the shoulders, for holding up the trousers.

To kindle; to burn. [Obs.] Herrick.

To make a tender of; to offer or tender. [Obs.]

The act of attending or waiting; attendance. [Archaic] Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson.

Tendency. [Obs.]

ffect or result. Writings of this kind, if conducted with candor, have a more particular tendency to the good of their country. Addison. In every experimental science, there is a tendency toward perfection. Macaulay.

One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

tive. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n. Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them. 2 Chron. xiii. 7. Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted. Eph. iv. 32.

Having great tenderness; easily moved. [Obs.] Shak.

A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life. [Slang, Western U.S.]

One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling. [R.] W. Harrison (1586).

A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.

In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.

The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).

Pertaining to a tendon; of the nature of tendon.

Attendance; care. [Obs.]

le, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. Tendon reflex (Physiol.), a kind of reflex act in which a muscle is made to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally a sign of disease. See Knee jerk, under Knee.

Tendinous.

See Tenosynovitis.