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  • English Word Tender Definition Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.
  • English Word Tender Definition Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel.
  • English Word Tender Definition Regard; care; kind concern.
  • English Word Tender Definition To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.
  • English Word Tender-hearted Definition Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive.
  • English Word Tender-hefted Definition Having great tenderness; easily moved.
  • English Word Tendered Definition of Tender
  • English Word Tenderfoot Definition A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life.
  • English Word Tendering Definition of Tender
  • English Word Tenderling Definition One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling.
  • English Word Tenderling Definition One of the first antlers of a deer.
  • English Word Tenderloin Definition A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.
  • English Word Tenderly Definition In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly.
  • English Word Tenderness Definition The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).
  • English Word Tending Definition of Tend
  • English Word Tendinous Definition Pertaining to a tendon; of the nature of tendon.
  • English Word Tendinous Definition Full of tendons; sinewy; as, nervous and tendinous parts of the body.
  • English Word Tendment Definition Attendance; care.
  • English Word Tendon Definition A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew.
  • English Word Tendonous Definition Tendinous.
  • English Word Tendosynovitis Definition See Tenosynovitis.
  • English Word Tendrac Definition Any one of several species of small insectivores of the family Centetidae, belonging to Ericulus, Echinope, and related genera, native of Madagascar. They are more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog in habits. The rice tendrac (Oryzorictes hora) is very injurious to rice crops. Some of the species are called also tenrec.
  • English Word Tendril Definition A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally.
  • English Word Tendril Definition Clasping; climbing as a tendril.
  • English Word Tendriled Definition Alt. of Tendrilled
  • English Word Tendrilled Definition Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils.
  • English Word Tendron Definition A tendril.
  • English Word Tendry Definition A tender; an offer.
  • English Word Tene Definition See 1st and 2d Teen.
  • English Word Tenebrae Definition The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, -- usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days.