tender : Idioms & Phrases

• one in charge of a gate, as at a railroad crossing.

Webster 1913

• noun something that can be used as an official medium of payment
  tender; stamp.
  

WordNet

• . (a) The act of tendering in the performance of a contract or satisfaction of a claim that which the law prescribes or permits, and at such time and place as the law prescribes or permits . (b) That currency, or money, which the law authorizes a debtor to tender and requires a creditor to receive. It differs in different countries.

Webster 1913

• noun considerate and solicitous care
  TLC.
  
  • young children need lots of TLC

WordNet

• (Law), a form of words in a pleading, by which a party offers to refer the question raised upon it to the appropriate mode of decision. Burrill.

Webster 1913

• noun an offer to buy shares in a corporation (usually above the market price) for cash or securities or both
  

WordNet

Ten"der-heart`ed adjective

Definitions

1. Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n.

   Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them. 2 Chron. xiii. 7.

   Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted. Eph. iv. 32.

Webster 1913

Ten"der-heft`ed adjective

Definitions

1. Having great tenderness; easily moved. Obs. Shak.

Webster 1913