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.)
Defn: 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.
Syn. — Delicate; effeminate; soft; sensitive; compassionate; kind; humane; merciful; pitiful.
TENDER
Ten"der, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tendre.]
Defn: Regard; care; kind concern. [Obs.] Shak.
TENDER
Ten"der, v. t.
Defn: 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.