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One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.

A superintendent. [R.]

her; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to surrender a fort or a ship.

The person to whom a surrender is made. Mozley & W.

One who surrenders.

One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier.

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

in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt.

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).

One whose business is to free wool from its filth. [Prov. Eng.]

One who vends; one who transfers the exclusive right of possessing a thing, either his own, or that of another as his agent, for a price or pecuniary equivalent; a seller; a vendor.

s that fires are properly cleaned and stoked, etc. There is also a rating of chief water tender, who is a chief petty officer.

ncern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned. I. Taylor.

To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.