Tender

1. n. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.
2. n. One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
3. n. A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.
4. n. 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.
5. n. 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.
6. n. The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.
7. superl. Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.
8. superl. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
9. superl. Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.
10. superl. Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another’s good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.
11. 1n. 1 A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.
12. 1n. 1 One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

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.