tend 
II to orttand it Common OouMfl timt the new Mayor 
tenne the old Mayoral his owne house, and (MhOOU with 
the sword before him afterward. 
/. '.',/,/ (K. E. T. S.), p. 41. 
Anil tluminK minister* to wiitdi inl If ml 
Their i';irtlil> charge. MUtim, i'. I,., U. 156. 
2. To look after; dike earenl' ; h;i\e the charge, 
.-are, or supervision of: as, to li'inl a mac'liiiie; 
In l'ii/l a tliK'k; In It-nit ii, sii-k person. 
The Boy of whom I spnik 
III Summer I' /><>' <l r;l!l Ir nil the llllK 
W'irilxii'nrth, KxctMMiin i 
I would fain stay and ln-lp thec If ml him ! 
M. Annilil, l'.m|n;ilorli' on Etna. 
The mother . . . sat at the foot of the ln-d ami tended 
Annie's haliy. The Atlantic, XLIX. 64. 
3t. To be attentive to ; attend to ; be minilful 
of; mind. 
Unauck'd of lamb or kid that tntd their play. 
MOtun, P. L., Ix. 683. 
4. To wait upon so as to execute; be prepared 
to perform. [Bare.] 
lly all the stars that tend thy hid ding. Keats. 
5. Naut., to watrli, a a vessel at anchor, at the 
turn of tides, and cast her by the helm, and by 
some sail if necessary, so as to keep turns out 
of her cable. =Syn. 1 and 2. To keep, protect, nurse. 
II. intrunit. 1. To attend; wait as an at- 
tendant or servant: with on or !/;/. 
Was he not companion with the riotous knights 
That tend upon my father? Shak., Lear, II. 1. 96. 
O I that wasted time to tend upon her, 
To compass her with sweet observances. 
Tennyson, Geralnt. 
2f. To be in waiting ; be ready for sendee ; at- 
tend. 
The associates tend, and everything fs bent 
For England. Shak., Hamlet, Iv. 3. 47. 
3f. To be attentive ; listen. 
Tend to the master's whistle. Shak., Tempest, L L 8. 
tend 3 t, . t. See tind. 
tend 4 !. Obsolete past participle of teen 1 . 
tendablet (ten'da-bl), a. [< tend* + -able.] At- 
tentive. 
A tendable [var. ptyaunt] seruaunt standeth in fauour. 
Hugh lihodes, quoted in Babees Book (E. E. T. B.\ p. Ixxxli. 
tendance (ten'daus), H. [Also sometimes teii- 
dence; by apheresis fi'om attendance; of. tend 2 
for attend.] If. Expectant waiting; expec- 
tancy. 
Unhapple wight, borne to desastrous end, 
That doth his life in so long tendance spend ! 
Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale, 1. 008. 
2. Persons waiting or in attendance. 
All those which were his fellows but of late . . . 
Follow his strides, his lobbies till with trndamt, 
Rain sacrificial whisperings in his ear. 
SAa*.,T. of A., i. 1.80. 
3. Attendance; the work or art of tending or 
caring for some person or thing; attention; 
care ; watchful supervision or care. 
Good Host, such tendence as you would expect 
From your own children if yourself were sick. 
Let this old Man find atyour hands. 
Wordiworth, The Borderers, i. 
tendantt (ten'dant), it. [By apheresis from at- 
t< iitlitnt.'] An attendant. 
His tendants round about 
Him, fainting, falling, carried In with care. 
Ficon, tr. of Virgil, 1632. (Xarei.) 
tendence 1 (ten'dens), . [< F. tendance = Sp. 
Pg. tcndeiicia = It. tendenza, < ML. as if *ten- 
ili'iitiu, < L. tenrfen (<-), ppr. of tendere, stretch, 
extend : see tend 1 .] Tendency. [Rare.] 
He freely moves and acts according to his most natural 
1, 11,1 f nee and inclination. J. Scott, Christian Life, I. 1. 
tendence' 2 (ten'deus), n. Same as tendance. 
tendency (ten'den-si), n. [As tendence^ (see 
-<"#)] Movement, or inclination to move, in 
some particular direction or toward some end or 
purpose ; bent, leaning, or inclination toward 
some object, effect, or result ; inclining or con- 
tributing influence. 
The tenderest mother could not have been more anxious 
and careful as to the religious tendency of any books we 
read. Lady Holland, Sydney Smith, vi. 
I', ifli it,'// is the ideal summation of the statical condi- 
tions which tend to a dynamical result; or, to express it 
less technically, it is one gathering up into a picture of 
all the events which we foresee will succeed each other 
when the organism is set going, ami of the final result. 
0. H. Lewes, Probs. of Life and Mind, I. il. t 38. 
Everywhere the history of religion betrays a tendency 
to enthusiasm. Kmenan, Essays, 1st ser., p. 256. 
= Syn. Propensity, Inclination, etc. (see bentl), drift, di- 
rection, bearing. 
tender 1 (ten'der), a. and . [X ME. tender, 
trudre, < OF. (and F.) tendre = Pi: tenre, tendre 
= Sp. tierno = Pg. teiiro = It. tenero, < L. titu r. 
soft, delicate, tender, of tender age, young; 
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akin to tfiiui.i, thin, fine: see thin.] I. ti. If. 
Thin; slender; attenuated; fine: literally or 
tijinnitively. 
The happen over mannea hede 
Ben honge with a tender threde. 
Oower, Conf. Amaut . vi. 
Midst this was heard the shrill and tender cry 
i if well-pleased ghosts, which in the storm did fly. 
Oryden, Tyrannic Love, i. 1 
2. Of fine or delicate quality; delicate; fine; 
soft : as, a tender glow of color. 
This set so many artists on worke, that they smnie arir'd 
to y> perfection It Is since come, emulating the tenderett 
miniatures. Bvelyn, Diary, March 13, 1661. 
Late, in a flood of tender light, 
She floated through the ethereal blue. 
Bryant, The Waning Moon. 
I treasure In secret some long fine hair 
Of tendered brown. LoireU, Wind-Harp. 
3t. Soft; thin; watery. 
We taw 
My rider . . . 
Vault o'er his mare into a tender slough. 
Shirley, Hyde Park, iv. 3. 
4. Delicate to the touch, or yielding readily 
to the action of a cutting instrument or to a 
blow ; not tough or hard ; especially, soft and 
easily masticated : as, tender meat. 
Kloriz ne let for ne f eo 
To flnden al that ueod beo, 
Of fless of flss, of tendre bred, 
Of whit win and eke red. 
Kimj Horn (E. E. T. S.\ p. 52. 
We had some beef-steak, not BO tender as It might have 
been, some of the potatoes, some cheese. 
R. L. Stevenson, Inland Voyage, p. 73. 
5. Soft; impressible; susceptible; sensitive; 
compassionate ; easily touched, affected, or in- 
fluenced: as, a tender heart. 
As you have pity, stop those tender ears 
From his enchanting voice. 
Beau, and Fl., King and No Ring, U. 1. 
He was, above many, tender of sin. 
Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, il. 
In the way to our lodging we met a messenger from the 
countess of Falchensteyn, a pretty young tender man, near 
to the kingdom, who sainted us In her name with much 
love. /Vim, Travels in Holland, etc. 
To each his sufferings ; all are men 
Condemned alike to groan ; 
The tender for another's pain, 
The unfeeling for his own. 
(Ira i/, On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. 
6. Expressing sensitive feeling; expressing the 
gentle emotions, as love or pity, especially the 
former; kindly; loving; affectionate; fond. 
Von have show'd a tender fatherly regard. 
Shak., T. of the S., II. 1. 288. 
Her wide gray eyes 
Made tenderer with those thronging memories. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 296. 
I desired him to repeat to me the translation he had 
made of some tender verses in Theocritus. 
Steele, Taller, No. 207. 
That Number Five foresaw from the first that any (<>, 
derer feeling than that of friendship would intrude itself 
between them I do not believe. 
0. W. Holmes, The Atlantic, LXVI. 665. 
7. Delicate in constitution, consistency, tex- 
ture, etc.; fragile; easily injured, broken, or 
bruised. 
I know how tender reputation Is, 
And with what guards it ought to be preaerv'd, lady. 
Fletcher, Rule a Wife, i. 1. 
And certainly, if the air was the cause of the elasticity 
of springs, as some have imagined, it would have been 
perceived in so tender a movement as a pocket watch, lying 
under the perpetual influence of two springs. 
W. Derham, in Ellls's Lit. Letters, p. 317. 
Where'er the tender grass was leading 
Its earliest green along the lane. 
Wardstcorth, Peter Bell. 
8. Delicate as regards health; weakly. [Scotch.] 
I am sure I wad hae answered for her as my ain daugh- 
ter ; but, wae 's my heart, I had been tender a' the simmer, 
and scarce ower the door o' my room for twal weeks. 
Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, v. 
9. Very sensitive to impression; very sus- 
ceptible of any sensation or emotion; easily 
pained. 
What art thou call'st me from my holy rites, 
And with the feared name of death affrights 
My tender ears? 
Fletcher, Faithful Shepherdess, iv. 2. 
10. Not strong; not hardy; not able to endure 
hardship or rough treatment ; delicate ; weak. 
But longe ne myght endure the cristln, for yet the 
childeren were tendre and grene, so that the! moste nede 
remove a-brode in to the feilde, and in short tyme the! 
sholde haue hadde grete losse. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 287. 
My lord knoweth that the children are tender. 
Gen. xxxiii. 13. 
The tender and delicate woman among you. 
Deut. xxvlii. 50. 
tender 
So fur beneath your soft and tender breeding. 
>V,.i(l-., T. N., v. 1. SSI. 
A tender, puling, nice, chltty-fac'd squall 'tis. 
Middlelim, More Dissemblers besides Women, III. 1. 
11. Fresh; immature; feeble; young and in- 
experienced. 
For tendere wlttes wenen al be wyle 
Theru they kan nat pleynly understonde. 
Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 271. 
I iii-re came two Springals, of full tender yeares. 
Spenter, F. Q., V. x. 6. 
He left, In his tender youth, the bosom of home, of hap- 
pineal, of wealth, and of rank, to plunge In the dust and 
blood of our inauspicious struggle. 
JS. Everett, Orations, I. 466. 
12f. Precious; dear. 
I love Valentine, 
Whose life's as tender to me as my soul. 
Shalt., T. O. of V.,T. 4. 37. 
13. Careful; solicitous; considerate; watch- 
ful; concerned; unwilling to pain or injure; 
scrupulous: with of or over. 
So tender over his occasions, true, 
So feat, so nurse-like. 
Shale., Cymbellne, v. 5. 87. 
As this is soft and pliant to your arms 
In a clicumferent flexure, so will I 
Be tender o/ your welfare and your will. 
Chapman, Gentleman Usher, Iv. 
Get once a good Name, and be very tender of it after- 
wards. lli.n:ll. Letters, IL 14. 
Don't be so tender at making an enemy now and then. 
Emenon, Conduct of Life. 
14. Delicate ; ticklish ; apt to give pain if in- 
considerately or roughly dealt with or referred 
to; requiring careful handling so as not to an- 
noy or give pain: as, a tender subject. 
In things that are tender and unpleaslng. it la good to 
break the Ice by some whose words are of less weight, 
and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by 
chance. Bacon, Cunning (ed. 1887). 
15f. Quick; keen; sharp. 
The full-fed hound or gorged hawk, 
Unapt for tender smell or speedy flight. 
Shak., Lucrece, 1. 695. 
16. Of ships, apt to lean over under sail; ten- 
der-sided: same AS crank*, 1. 17f. Yielding 
to a small force ; sensitive. 
These, being weighed In a pair of tender scales, amount- 
ed to one grain and a quarter. 
Boyle, Subtilty of Effluviums, ii. 
Tender porcelain. See porcelain^. 
H.t A tender regard ; fondness; affection; 
regard. 
Thou hast redeem'd thy lost opinion, 
And show'd thou makest some tender of my life. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., v. 4. 49. 
I had a kind of a Tender for Dolly. 
Mrs. Centliere, The Man's Bewitched, v. 2. 
I swear, Lady Harriot, were I not already yours, I could 
have a Tender for this Lady. Steele, Grief A-la-Mode, v. 1. 
tender 1 (ten'der), r. t. [ME. tendren; < ten- 
der 1 , o.] If. To regard or treat with compas- 
sion, solicitude, fondness, or care; cherish; 
hence, to hold dear; value; esteem. 
Wherfor I besech yow of yowr faderly pyte to tendre the 
more thys symple wryghtyng, as I schal owt of dowght 
her after doo that schal please yow to the uttermest of 
my power and labor. Fasten Letters, I. 436. 
Your minion, whom ... I tender dearly. 
Shak., T. N., v. 1. 129. 
As you tender your Ears, be secret. 
Congrea, Way of the World, L 2. 
1 saw anothers fate approaching fast, 
And left mine owne his saf etle to tender. 
Spenter, Virgil's Gnat, 1. 862. 
What of the ravenous Tygre then, 
To lose her yong she teitder'd with such care? 
Heywood, Dialogues (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, VI. 136). 
2. To make tender, in any sense. 
I pray God forgive you, open your eyes, tender your 
hearts. Penn, To J. H., etc. 
If too strongly acid or alkaline it [the mordant] will 
have a corrosive action, and the goods, as it is technically 
called, will be tendered. 
W. Crootes, Dyeing and Calico- Printing, p. 517. 
tender 2 (ten'der), r. [< F. tendre = Pr. tendre = 
Sp. Pg. tender = It. tendere, stretch, display, 
also tender, offer, < L. tendere, stretch, extend : 
see tend 1 . Tender, like render, surrender, re- 
tains, exceptionally, the termination of the F. 
inf. ; tend 1 is the same word without this ter- 
mination.] I. trans. 1. To offer; make offer 
of; present for acceptance: as, to tender one a 
complimentary dinner ; to tender one's resigna- 
tion. 
Most mighty Lord (quoth Adam), heer I tender 
All thanks I can, not all I should thee render. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du liartas's Weeks, ii., Eden. 
Upon tendrinff my Present, he seemed to smile, and gave 
me a gentle Nod. 
BaUey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, II. 2. 
