<adj.all> a tender heart a tender smile tender loving care tender memories a tender mother
easy to cut or chew
<adj.all> tender beef
physically untoughened
<adj.all> tender feet
hurting
<adj.all> the tender spot on his jaw
young and immature
<adj.all> at a tender age
having or displaying warmth or affection
<adj.all> affectionate children a fond embrace fond of his nephew a tender glance a warm embrace
(used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
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(of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition
<adj.all> tender green shoots
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.
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.
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.
A free, unlimited tender of the gospel. --South.
3. The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation. --Shak.
{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.
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.
2. (Naut.) A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.
3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.
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.
2. To offer in words; to present for acceptance.
You see how all conditions, how all minds, . . . tender down Their services to Lord Timon. --Shak.
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.
2. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our faces. --L'Estrange.
3. Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.
The tender and delicate woman among you. --Deut. xxviii. 56.
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.
The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. --James v. 11.
I am choleric by my nature, and tender by my temper. --Fuller.
5. Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
I love Valentine, Whose life's as tender to me as my soul! --Shak.
6. Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of. ``Tender of property.'' --Burke.
The civil authority should be tender of the honor of God and religion. --Tillotson.
7. Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.
You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies, Will never do him good. --Shak.
8. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.
9. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject. ``Things that are tender and unpleasing.'' --Bacon.
10. (Naut.) Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel.
Note: Tender is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, tender-footed, tender-looking, tender-minded, tender-mouthed, and the like.
Tender \Ten"der\, n. [Cf. F. tendre.] Regard; care; kind concern. [Obs.] --Shak.
Tender \Ten"der\, v. t. To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value. [Obs.]
For first, next after life, he tendered her good. --Spenser.
Tender yourself more dearly. --Shak.
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.
As previously reported, the tender offer is slated to expire June 2 at midnight EDT.
As previously reported, Aaron Brothers directors and other stockholders who together hold 64% of the shares outstanding have agreed to tender their shares.
Any future purchases of Metex stock might be made through open-market or privately negotiated transactions, or through "a corporate transaction such as an exchange offer, a tender offer or a merger," the filing said.
West Point-Pepperell said it plans to begin a tender offer for all of Stevens stock at $62.50 a share in cash, but would increase its offer to $64 a share if Stevens recommends the offer.
The tender offer was launched through New World's Marvel Entertainment Group Inc. subsidiary, which was included in the injunction issued Friday.
"Everyone who is in Wisconsin doing defense work gets tender loving care from this congressman," he said.
McCaw's outstanding hostile tender offer of $110 per share for LIN stock it doesn't already own had been scheduled to expire at midnight EDT Friday.
Time and Warner originally agreed to merge in a stock-for-stock transaction but revised their merger agreement to provide for Time's tender offer after Paramount announced its first bid on June 6.
Donald Trump, chairman and controlling shareholder of Resorts International Inc., made a tender offer of $84 million, or $15 a share, for all the company's Class A common shares.
Norton said it would "vigorously oppose" the BTR suit, and filed its own suit in federal court in Boston seeking to enjoin BTR's tender offer and to stop BTR from soliciting proxies.
The board rejected Davis' bid and his subsequent tender offer for the same amount, but it invited him to submit a higher bid in a process that quickly attracted financially troubled Pan Am.
Turn the slices once and allow six to seven minutes for the vegetable to become hot, tender and burnished with gold.
Bank of New York's tender offer expires tomorrow night.
American Stores said it would begin a tender offer "promptly."
A management group abandoned its buyout plan for Purolator Courier Corp., clearing the way for Emery Air Freight Corp. to pursue its $306 million tender offer for Purolator.
Imo also said it has amended filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission to describe two recently completed financings that will provide funds for the Varo tender offer.
Last week, Kohlberg Kravis launched a $90-a-share tender offer for Atlanta-based Nabisco that is contingent upon approval by the company's board.
In return, the Audio/Video group agreed to terminate its tender offer for Cyclops.
Whether Mr. Jacobs or GAF makes a tender offer for the company, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Bere see similarities with the attempted takeover of Goodyear.
The central bank said one-dollar notes will remain legal tender after it has ceased issuing them.
Pillsbury Co., in its first detailed response to Grand Metropolitan PLC's $5.23 billion tender offer, said it was exploring all possible alternatives to accepting the bid.
As expected, Wickes said Tuesday that it ended its tender offer for Lear Siegler.
The WPP and Ogilvy boards agreed on the buyout last month and WPP's $54-a-share tender offer expired at 10 a.m. Monday.
The best that can be said of share-backs is that, in those which used a tender, there may be a tax credit.
Macy, which last week signed a $6.1 billion definitive buyout agreement with Federated, on Tuesday began a tender offer for Federated's common stock.
One should have thought lamb a more pascal dish; when the meat is young and tender.
The company turned down an unsolicited tender offer of $16 a share from Salant as inadequate and instructed its financial adviser to search for alternatives.
American Stores began its courtship with Lucky in March, launching a tender offer of $45 a share, which it later said it would consider increasing to $50 a share.
Awarded by competitive tender, the eight-month contract will be completed in December. The second, for Land Securities, is a six-storey office block in Gough Square, London EC4 where Wiltshier has recently completed an office block development.
Time and Warner, which originally planned to merge in a stock swap transaction, revised the deal in response to Paramount's $10.7 billion hostile bid for Time, providing instead for Time to acquire Warner in a $14 billion, $70-a-share tender offer.