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.

To offer in words; to present for acceptance.

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.

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 vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.

Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel.

Small boat with motor to transfer passengers from a boat/ship to take them to shore or to a boat.

A small boat used to carry persons from shore to ship and back Colloquial term used to describe the condition of a ship having marginal stability To present for acceptance an offer (to tender a bit)

those plants sensitive to frost.

The term tender can be used to describe any plant that will suffer from cold temperatures --even a light frost. These plants generally come from tropical or sub-tropical regions and need special care when planted out of their native zone.

A plant that has no resistance to frost.

Indicates that a plant can not survive temperatures below freezing.

A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.

The car immediately behind a steam locomotive which is used to store the water and fuel (wood, coal, or oil) needed for the locomotive's operation.

The car just behind most steam locomotives that carried the water, coal, wood or fuel oil.

car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water

Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.

Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.

Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.

Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.

Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.

(of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition; "tender green shoots"

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

Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of.

Regard; care; kind concern.

To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.

Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.

In the horticultural sense of not enduring winter conditions.

Fibre with a tensile weakness along a portion of the staple length.

Wool that is weak throughout the entire length of the fiber.

An item created by Shippers to describe their transportation requirements. It consists of a Header, View Restrictions (if appropriate) and a Lane or Lanes. Also known as an ITT.

Shipper delivers shipment(s) to air carrier for transportation.

The act of dropping off a shipment at the origin.