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

itive. -- 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 who, or that which, attends.

A barkeeper.

One who contends; a contestant.

To make tender. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

One who, or that which, extends or stretches anything.

One who intends. Feltham.

A plea, by the defendant, in a criminal prosecution, which, without admitting guilt, subjects him to all the consequences of a plea of quilty.

The pretender (Eng. Hist.), the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident pretenders to certainty. Glanvill.

The character, right, or claim of a pretender. Swift.

A superintendent. [R.]

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

y to the crown of England, and expressly abjuring allegiance to the descendants of the Pretender. Brande & C.