Proffer

1. n. Essay; attempt.
2. v. t. To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship.
3. v. t. To essay or attempt of one’s own accord; to undertake, or propose to undertake.
4. n. An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender; as, proffers of peace or friendship.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.